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We consider the polarization arising from scattering in an envelope illuminated by a central anisotropic source. Spherical harmonics are used to describe both the light source anisotropy and the envelope density distribution functions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-16 R Ignace , M Al-Malki , J Simmons , J C Brown , D Clarke , J Carson

The optical theorem relates the total scattering cross-section of a given structure with its forward scattering, but does not impose any restrictions on other directions. Strong backward-forward asymmetry in scattering could be achieved by…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-22 Vitali Kozlov , Dmitry Filonov , Alexander S. Shalin , Ben Z. Steinberg , Pavel Ginzburg

We consider the origin of unpolarised light resulting from the backscattering of circularly polarized light by random turbid tissue-like disperse medium. We reveal the dynamics of the backscattered fraction of unpolarized light, disclosing…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-12 Ivan Lopushenko , Alexander Bykov , Igor Meglinski

We revisit the total scatterings (in terms of extinction, scattering and absorption cross sections) by arbitrary clusters of nonmagnetic particles that support optically-induced magnetic responses. Our reexamination is conducted from the…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-23 Qingdong Yang , Weijin Chen , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

The polarization of a coherent depolarized incident light beam passing through a disordered medium is investigated. The local polarization of the scattered far field and the probability density function are calculated and show an excellent…

Optics · Physics 2011-06-06 Jacques Sorrentini , Myriam Zerrad , Gabriel Soriano , Claude Amra

The backscattering of circularly polarized light at normal incidence to a half-space of scattering particles is studied using the Electric Field Monte Carlo (EMC) method. The spatial distribution of the backscattered light intensity is…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kevin G. Phillips , Min Xu , S. K. Gayen , R. R. Alfano

We consider the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a penetrable thin tubular scattering object in three-dimensional free space. We establish an asymptotic representation formula for the scattered wave away from the thin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Yves Capdeboscq , Roland Griesmaier , Marvin Knöller

In time-reversal invariant electronic systems the scattering matrix is anti-symmetric. This property enables an effect, designated here as "scattering anomaly", such that the electron transport does not suffer from back reflections,…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-03 Mario G. Silveirinha

We consider a p-polarized surface electromagnetic wave (a classical surface polariton) at the interface between the vacuum and a metal or left-handed medium. We show that the evanescent electromagnetic waves forming the surface polariton…

Optics · Physics 2012-06-08 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

Light scattering and spin-orbit angular momentum coupling phenomena from subwavelength objects, with electric and magnetic dipolar responses, are receiving an increasing interest. Under illumination by circularly polarized light, spin-orbit…

Fostered by the recent progress of the fields of plasmonics and metamaterials, the seminal topic of light scattering by clusters of nanoparticles is attracting enormous renewed interest gaining more attention than ever before. Related…

Optics · Physics 2013-10-31 Ben Hopkins , Wei Liu , Andrey E. Miroshnichenko , Yuri S. Kivshar

The optical spin-Hall effect results in the formation of an antisymmetric real space polarization pattern forming spin currents. In this paper, we show that the exciton-polariton parametric scattering allows us to reverse the sign of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 H. Flayac , D. D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech , I. A. Shelykh

We briefly discuss the status of double parton scattering (DPS) on both theoretical and experimental sides and summarize the state of the naive DPS model, where the scatterers are taken completely independent. We then elaborate on some of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-12 Tomas Kasemets

By a computer simulation approach we study the scattering of $p$- or $s$-polarized light from a two-dimensional, randomly rough, perfectly conducting surface. The pair of coupled inhomogeneous integral equations for two independent…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-04 Ingve Simonsen , Alexei A. Maradudin , Tamara A. Leskova

The investigation of polarized light of protoplanetary disks is key for constraining the dust properties, disk morphology and embedded magnetic fields. However, different polarization mechanisms and the diversity of dust grain shapes and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 Robert Brunngräber , Sebastian Wolf

A medium with specific anisotropic refractive indices can induce a supersymmetric behavior in the propagation of polarized electromagnetic waves, in an analogue fashion to a quantum mechanical system. The polarizations of the wave are the…

We outline a global approach to scattering theory in one dimension that allows for the description of a large class of scattering systems and their $\mathcal{P}$-, $\mathcal{T}$-, and $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetries. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 Ali Mostafazadeh

Parity-time (PT) symmetry is of great interest. The reciprocal and unidirectional features are intriguing besides the PT symmetry phase transition. Recently, the reciprocal transmission, unidirectional reflectionless and invisibility are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 L. Jin , X. Z. Zhang , G. Zhang , Z. Song

Recently, there has been a revival of interest in mechanisms for changing the spin polarization of an electron beam on transmission through, or reflection from, a magnetic surface. An understanding of these mechanisms would allow the use of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 D. C. Hatton , J. A. C. Bland

We study the polarization of an electron scattered by different static potentials. The initial state of the electron is chosen as a wavepacket to construct the definite orbital angular momentum, and the final polarization of the electron,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-21 Hao-Hao Peng , Ren-Hong Fang