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Eisenbud-Wigner-Smith delay and the Larmor time give different estimates for the duration of a quantum scattering event. The difference is most pronounced in the case where de-Broglie wavelength is large compared to the size of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 X. Gutiérrez de la Cal , M. Pons , D. Sokolovski

The coherent Goos-H$\ddot{a}$nchen shifts of meta-grating are proposed, which is the Goos-H$\ddot{a}$nchen shifts of the two outgoing beams under the simultaneous incidence of two coherent optical beams from opposite sides of the grating…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Ma Luo , Feng Wu

We study the one dimensional time dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for a potential step with $E < V_0$. We obtain the wave is not instantaneously reflected, but for a few moment of time the wave packet penetrate into inaccessible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Khaled Saaidi

A nonreflecting wavepacket is constructed by the superposition of reflectionless eigenstates of sech2 potential. Free propagation and propagation in the presence of the above potential of such a wavepacket is considered using the concept of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 S. V. Mousavi

We theoretically investigate the control of the Goos-H\"anchen shift (GHS) of a reflected weak probe field in both parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric and conventional optomechanical systems. The proposed scheme consists of a single…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-03 Shah Fahad , Gao Xianlong

We present precise expressions of the spatial and angular Goos-Haenchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts experienced by a longitudinally and transversally limited beam of light (wave packet) upon reflection from a dielectric interface, as opposed…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marco Ornigotti , Andrea Aiello

We construct the invisible quantum barrier which represents the phenomenon of quantum reflection using the available data. We use the Abel equation to invert the data. The resulting invisible quantum barrier is double-valued in both axes.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. X. de Carvalho , M. S. Hussein , Weibin Li

We study theoretically the influence of the surface plasmon excitation on the Goos-H\"{a}nchen lateral shift of a $p$-polarized Gaussian beam incident obliquely on a dielectric-metal bilayer in the Otto configuration. We find that the…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Sangbum Kim , Kihong Kim

We consider the time delay of interfering single photons oppositely traveling in the Kerr metric of a rotating massive object. Classically, the time delay shows up as a phase difference between coherent sources of light. In quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Sebastian P. Kish , Timothy C. Ralph

We present a new model of scattering a quantum particle on the potential step, which reconstructs the prehistory of the subensembles of transmitted and reflected particles by their final states. Unlike the conventional one this model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 N. L. Chuprikov

We apply Brunetti and Fredenhagen's [Phys. Rev. A 66 (2002) 044101] concept of the time of occurrence of an event in quantum mechanics to the example of scattering off a spherical potential. Thereby, we re-derive the expression of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Jochen Zahn

Absorption yields an additional exponential decay in open quantum systems which can be described by shifting the (scattering) energy E along the imaginary axis, E+i\hbar/2\tau_{a}. Using the random matrix approach, we calculate analytically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Savin , H. -J. Sommers

We introduce a formalism for the calculation of the time of arrival t at a space point for particles traveling through interacting media. We develop a general formulation that employs quantum canonical transformations from the free to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. Leon , J. Julve , P. Pitanga , F. J. de Urries

We investigate the reflection of a Gaussian beam impinging upon the surface of an epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) medium. In particular, we discuss the occurrence of Goos-H\"anchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts. Our calculations reveal that spatial…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 Arttu Nieminen , Andrea marini , Marco Ornigotti

This article concerns a phenomenon of elementary quantum mechanics that is quite counter-intuitive, very non-classical, and apparently not widely known: a quantum particle can get reflected at a downward potential step. In contrast,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 Pedro L. Garrido , Sheldon Goldstein , Jani Lukkarinen , Roderich Tumulka

In recent years, the fantastic phenomena of negative Goos-H\"anchen shifts were studied in several optics experiments with the positive refractivity materials, which is predicted by many scientists through both classical physics or quantum…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-13 Jiang Rong , Huang Zhi-Xun , Lu Gui-Zhen

The spatial and the angular variants of the Goos-H\"anchen (GH) and the Imbert-Federov (IF) beam shifts contribute in a complex interrelated way to the resultant beam shift in partial reflection at planar dielectric interfaces. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-11 S. Goswami , S. Dhara , M. Pal , A. Nandi , P. K. Panigrahi , N. Ghosh

Recently, the electronic analogy of the anomalous spatial shift, including Goos-H\"{a}nchen and Imbert-Fedorov effects, has been attracting widespread interest. The current research on the anomalous spatial shift in interface electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Runze Li , Chaoxi Cui , Xinxing Zhou , Zhiming Yu

We investigate the effect of inter-atomic interactions on the quantum-mechanical reflection of Bose-Einstein condensates from regions of rapid potential variation. The reflection process depends critically on the density and incident…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 R. G. Scott , A. M. Martin , T. M. Fromhold , F. W. Sheard

The concept of phase and dwell times used in tunneling is extended to quantum collisions to derive a relation between the phase and dwell time delays in scattering. This relation can be used to remove the near threshold s-wave singularities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Neelima G. Kelkar