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The scattering matrix approach to phase-coherent transport is generalized to nonlinear ac-transport. In photon-assisted electron transport it is often only the dc-component of the current that is of experimental interest. But ac-currents at…

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This work is a natural extension of the authors previous work, Multiple scattering theory for heterogeneous elastic continua with strong property fluctuation, theoretical fundamentals and applications, which established the foundation for…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-12 Huijing He

This work continues the development of the raytracing method of [1] for computing the scattered fields from metasurfaces characterized by locally periodic reflection and transmission coefficients. In this work, instead of describing the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Scott Stewart , Yvo L. C. de Jong , Tom J. Smy , Shulabh Gupta

Controlling light propagation across scattering media by wavefront shaping holds great promise for a wide range of communications and imaging applications. However, finding the right wavefront to shape is a challenge when the mapping…

Compton scattering plays an important role in various astrophysical objects such as accreting black holes and neutron stars, pulsars, and relativistic jets, clusters of galaxies as well as the early Universe. In most of the calculations it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-22 Juri Poutanen , Indrek Vurm

A frequency-based omni-temporal dispersion theory is developed to capture the transient interplay between diffusion, advection, and reaction during solute transport through porous media. Unlike classical asymptotic dispersion theories,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Md Abdul Hamid , Kyle C. Smith

We report a theory for analyzing nonlinear DC transport properties of mesoscopic or nanoscopic normal-superconducting (N-S) systems. Special attention was paid such that our theory satisfies gauge invariance. At the linear transport regime…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian Wang , Yadong Wei , Hong Guo , Qing-feng Sun , Tsung-han Lin

Careful analysis of parametrized variational principles in mechanics and field theory leads to a generalization of Einstein theory that includes a cosmological stress tensor. This generalization also follows by restricting variations of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Arlen Anderson

We present a comprehensive analytical study of radiative transfer using the method of moments and include the effects of non-isotropic scattering in the coherent limit. Within this unified formalism, we derive the governing equations and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kevin Heng , João M. Mendonça , Jae-Min Lee

The multipole expansion can be formulated in spherical and Cartesian coordinates. By constructing an explicit map linking both formulations in isotropic media, we discover a lack of equivalence between them in anisotropic media. In…

Transmission of the scalar field through the random medium, represented by the system of randomly distributed dielectric cylinders is calculated numerically. System is mapped to the problem of electronic transport in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 P. Markos , C. M. Soukoulis

This paper focuses on the time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) scattering problem in a general medium which may possess a nontrivial topological structure. We model this by an inhomogeneous and possibly anisotropic medium with embedded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Qingle Meng , Li Wang

The L\'evy-Lorentz gas describes the motion of a particle on the real line in the presence of a random array of scattering points, whose distances between neighboring points are heavy-tailed i.i.d. random variables with finite mean. The…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Marco Zamparo

Non-linearities in the harmonic spectra of hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions provide evidence for the dynamical response to azimuthal spatial eccentricities. Here, we demonstrate within the framework of transport theory that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-09 Aleksi Kurkela , Urs Achim Wiedemann , Bin Wu

We develop a model for the reflection and transmission of plane waves by an isotropic layer sandwiched between two uniaxial crystals of arbitrary orientation. In the laboratory frame, reflection and transmission coefficients corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-29 Erik S. Thomson , Larry A. Wilen , John S. Wettlaufer

With the constraint from Onsager reciprocity relations, here we generalize the Klemens model for phonon-phonon Umklapp scattering from isotropic to anisotropic. Combined with the anisotropic Debye dispersion, this anisotropic Klemens model…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Bo Jiang , Tao Li , Zhen Chen

The unbiased thermal diffusion of an overdamped Brownian particle in a square lattice potential is considered in the presence of an externally applied ac driving. The resulting diffusion matrix exhibits two orthogonal eigenvectors with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-22 David Speer , Ralf Eichhorn , Peter Reimann

This work investigates the quantum transport in a narrow constriction acted upon by a finite-range transversely polarized time-dependent electric field. A generalized scattering-matrix method is developed that has incorporated a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu

We discuss effects of anisotropic scattering in transport properties of ultracold atoms in three-dimensional optical potentials. Within the realm of the first Born approximation, we calculate the self energy, the scattering mean free time,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-02-16 Afifa Yedjour , Abdelaali Boudjemaa

Cells and organisms follow aligned structures in their environment, a process that can generate persistent migration paths. Kinetic transport equations are a popular modelling tool for describing biological movements at the mesoscopic…

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