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Using mass perturbation theory, we infer the bound-state spectrum of massive QED$_2$ and compute some decay widths of unstable bound states. Further, we discuss scattering processes, where all the resonances and particle production…

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We consider quantum scattering of particles in media exhibiting strong dispersion degeneracy. In particular, we study flat-banded lattices and linearly dispersed energy bands. The former constitute a prime example of single-particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-05 Manuel Valiente , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

In this paper, we use a straightforward numerical method to solve scattering models in one-dimensional lattices based on a tight-binding band structure. We do this by using the wave packet approach to scattering, which presents a more…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-07-06 M. Staelens , F. Marsiglio

We calculate the quantum states of regular polygons made of 1D quantum wires treating each polygon vertex as a scatterer. The vertex scattering matrix is analytically obtained from the model of a circular bend of a given angle of a 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Cristian Estarellas , Llorenç Serra

An overarching goal in the flourishing field of quantum simulation for high-energy physics is the first-principles study of the microscopic dynamics of scattering processes on a quantum computer. Currently, this is hampered by small system…

The quantum decay of a relativistic scalar field from a metastable state ("false vacuum decay") is a fundamental idea in quantum field theory and cosmology. This occurs via local formation of bubbles of true vacuum with their subsequent…

We investigate the feasibility of extracting infinite volume scattering phase shift on quantum computers in a simple one-dimensional quantum mechanical model, using the formalism established in Ref.~\cite{Guo:2023ecc} that relates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Peng Guo , Paul LeVan , Frank X. Lee , Yong Zhao

We introduce the notion of multi-dimensional chaos that applies to processes described by erratic functions of several dynamical variables. We employ this concept in the interpretation of classical and quantum scattering off a pinball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Massimo Bianchi , Maurizio Firrotta , Jacob Sonnenschein , Dorin Weissman

Metastable states of quantum many-body systems with confinement offer a means to simulate false vacuum phenomenology, including non-equilibrium dynamical processes like decay by nucleation, in truncated limits. Recent work has examined the…

We construct the exact position representation of a deformed quantum mechanics which exhibits an intrinsic maximum momentum and use it to study problems such as a particle in a box and scattering from a step potential, among others. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-09 Chee-Leong Ching , Rajesh Parwani

We investigate the scattering phenomena in two dimensions produced by a general finite-range nonseparable potential. This situation can appear either in a Cartesian geometry or in a heterostructure with cylindrical symmetry. Increasing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 P. N. Racec , E. R. Racec , H. Neidhardt

We study scattering in Ising Field Theory (IFT) using matrix product states and the time-dependent variational principle. IFT is a one-parameter family of strongly coupled non-integrable quantum field theories in 1+1 dimensions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Raghav G. Jha , Ashley Milsted , Dominik Neuenfeld , John Preskill , Pedro Vieira

Cascaded optical cavities appear in various quantum information processing schemes in which atomic qubits are sitting in separate cavities interconnected by photons as flying qubits. The usual theoretical description relies on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 András Dombi , Peter Domokos

A simple model coupling a one-dimensional beam particle to a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator is used to explore complementarity and entanglement. This model, well-known in the inelastic scattering literature, is presented under three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 David Kordahl

In binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates, massive-vortex dipoles can arise, and undergo scattering processes against obstacles. These show an intriguing dynamics, governed by the strongly nonlinear character of the quantum vortex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-28 Alice Bellettini , Enrico Ortu , Vittorio Penna

We discuss the scattering of a quantum particle by two independent successive point interactions in one dimension. The parameter space for two point interactions is given by $U(2)\times U(2)$, which is described by eight real parameters. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Kohkichi Konno , Tomoaki Nagasawa , Rohta Takahashi

The one-dimensional scattering of a two body interacting system by an infinite wall is studied in a quantum-mechanical framework. This problem contains some of the dynamical features present in the collision of atomic, molecular and nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-10-26 A. M. Moro , J. A. Caballero , J. Gomez-Camacho

This work presents an extensive exploration of scattering and tunneling involving composite objects with intrinsic degrees of freedom. We aim at exact solutions to such scattering problems. Along this path we demonstrate solution to model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 Naureen Ahsan , Alexander Volya

The coherent control of scattering processes is considered, with electron impact dissociation of H$_2^+$ used as an example. The physical mechanism underlying coherently controlled stationary state scattering is exposed by analyzing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Spanner , Paul Brumer

In this work we characterize the false vacuum decay in the ferromagnetic quantum Ising chain with a weak longitudinal field subject to continuous monitoring of the local magnetization. Initializing the system in a metastable state, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Jeff Maki , Anna Berti , Iacopo Carusotto , Alberto Biella