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Spin-orbit interactions of light are ubiquitous in multiple branches of nanophotonics, including optical wave localization. In that framework, it is widely accepted that circularly polarized beams lead to spin-dependent apparent shifts of…

Scattering of protons with transversal polarization $p_y^p$ on deuterons with tensor polarization $P_{xz}$ provides a null-test signal for time-reversal (T) invariance violating but parity (P) conserving effects. We calculate the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Yu. N. Uzikov , J. Haidenbauer

We study the direct and inverse scattering problems when the incident electromagnetic field is a time harmonic point- generated wave in a chiral medium and the scatterer is a perfectly conducting sphere. The exact Green s function and the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 Nikolaos Berketis , Christodoulos Athanasiadis

Disk polarization at (sub)millimeter wavelengths is being revolutionized by ALMA observationally, but its origin remains uncertain. Dust scattering was recently recognized as a potential contributor to polarization, although its basic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Haifeng Yang , Zhi-Yun Li , Leslie W. Looney , Josep M. Girart , Ian W. Stephens

Electron scattering on a thin layer where the potential depends self-consistently on the wave function has been studied. When the amplitude of the incident wave exceeds a certain threshold, a soliton-shaped brightening (darkening) appears…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-18 O. M. Bulashenko , V. A. Kochelap , L. L. Bonilla

We consider the role of a propagation effect such as the stimulated Raman scattering on the polarization of radio pulses. When an intense electromagnetic wave with frequency close to the plasma frequency interacts with the plasma in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. T. Gangadhara , H. Lesch , V. Krishan

Within the framework of the mean-field approximation, a coherently excited two-dimensional system of weakly repulsive bosons is predicted to show a giant loop scattering when the rotational symmetry is reduced. The considered process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 S. S. Gavrilov

In this article, we study the emergence of polarization singularities in the scattered fields of optical resonators excited by linearly polarized plane waves. First, we prove analytically that combinations of isotropic electric and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-28 Aitzol Garcia-Etxarri

It is shown that spin Hall effect creates uniform spin polarization of electrons in semiconductor with a linear in the momentum spin splitting of conduction band. In turn, the profile of the non-uniform spin polarization accumulated at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. L. Korenev

We investigate the scattering response of parity-time (PT) symmetric structures. We show that, due to the local flow of energy between gain and loss regions, such systems can deflect light in unusual ways, as a function of the gain/loss…

The reflections caused by common semi-reflectors, such as glass windows, can impact the performance of computer vision algorithms. State-of-the-art methods can remove reflections on synthetic data and in controlled scenarios. However, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Patrick Wieschollek , Orazio Gallo , Jinwei Gu , Jan Kautz

We study the no reflection condition for a planar boundary between vacuum and an isotropic chiral medium. In general chiral media, elliptically polarized waves incident at a particular angle satisfy the no reflection condition. When the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Tamayama , T. Nakanishi , K. Sugiyama , M. Kitano

We present a theoretical study of elastic spin-dependent electron scattering caused by a charged impurity in the vicinity of a two-dimensional electron gas. We find that the symmetry properties of the spin-dependent differential scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-05 A. Pályi , J. Cserti

A novel polarimeter based on the asymmetry in the spacial distribution of synchrotron radiation will make for a fine addition to the existing M{\o}ller and Compton polarimeters. The spin light polarimeter consists of a set of wiggler magnet…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Prajwal Mohanmurthy , Dipangkar Dutta

The quantum theory of polariton condensation in a trapped state reveals a second-order phase transition evidenced by spontaneous polarization parity breaking in sub-spaces of fixed polariton occupation numbers. The emission spectra of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 Huawen Xu , Timothy C. H. Liew , Yuri G. Rubo

The reflection of X-ray radiation produced near a compact object from its stellar companion contributes to the orbital variability of polarization in X-ray binaries. The X-rays are reflected mainly via Thomson scattering resulting in a high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-28 Varpu Ahlberg , Vadim Kravtsov , Juri Poutanen

Scattering activities are generally manifest through different optical responses of scattering bodies to circularly polarized light of opposite handedness. Similar to the ubiquitous roles played by scattering theory across different…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-18 Weijin Chen , Qingdong Yang , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

Inhomogeneities can influence the polarisation emerging from a synchrotron source. However, it is shown that the frequency distribution of circular polarisation is only marginally affected, although its magnitude may change substantially.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -I. Bjornsson

We present a theoretical study of a novel polarization beam splitter (PBS), different to conventional time-reversal symmetry one, where can be totally reflected at two opposite sides with one specific linearly polarized light incident and…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-29 Jeng Yi Lee

Epsilon-near-zero and epsilon near-pole materials enable reflective systems supporting a class of symmetry-protected and accidental embedded eigenstates (EE) characterized by a diverging phase-resonance. Here we show that pairs of…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-16 Zarko Sakotic , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alú , Nikolina Jankovic