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We propose a synthetic dimension for ultrafast free electrons based on the discrete energy sidebands in photon-induced near-field electron microscopy (PINEM). The PINEM synthetic dimension can offer a powerful way to coherently shape or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Yiming Pan , Bin Zhang , Daniel Podolsky

Inelastic interaction of free-electrons with optical near fields has recently attracted attention for manipulating and shaping free-electron wavepackets. Understanding the nature and the dependence of the inelastic cross section on the…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-15 Fatemeh chahshouri , Nahid Talebi

We develop a scattering theory to investigate the multi-photon transmission in a one-dimensional waveguide in the presence of quantum emitters. It is based on a path integral formalism, uses displacement transformations, and does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Tao Shi , Darrick E. Chang , J. Ignacio Cirac

An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

We study long range propagation of electromagnetic waves in random waveguides with rectangular cross-section and perfectly conducting boundaries. The waveguide is filled with an isotropic linear dielectric material, with randomly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea

In a preceding paper we introduced a formalism to study the scattering of low intensity fields from a system of multi-level emitters embedded in a $3$D dielectric medium. Here we show how this photon-scattering relation can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Sumanta Das , Vincent E. Elfving , Florentin Reiter , Anders S. Sørensen

The article discusses the correctness of the assumption about the similarity of molecular continuum electron functions with wave functions in electron-atom scattering. The elastic scattering of slow particles by pair of non-overlapping…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by an obstacle is analyzed through a set of partial differential equations combining the Maxwell's model with the mechanics of fluids. Solitary type EM waves, having compact support, may easily be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Daniele Funaro , Eugene Kashdan

Tracing the motion of electrons has enormous relevance to understanding ubiquitous phenomena in ultrafast science, such as the dynamical evolution of the electron density during complex chemical and biological processes. Scattering of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 Gopal Dixit , Jan Malte Slowik , Robin Santra

A consistent semiquantitative theoretical analysis of electronic Raman scattering from many-electron quantum dots under resonance excitation conditions has been performed. The theory is based on random-phase-approximation-like wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alain Delgado , Augusto Gonzalez , D. J. Lockwood

We study electron scattering in graphene quantum dots (GQDs) under the combined influence of a magnetic field, an energy gap, and circularly polarized laser irradiation. Using the Floquet approach and the Dirac equation, we derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Ahmed Bouhlal , Mohammed El Azar , Aotmane En Naciri , Elmustapha Feddi , Ahmed Jellal

Nonlocal interactions between photonic resonator array and giant atoms have attracted extensive attentions. Optimization and control of quantum states via giant atoms have been shown. We here study the dynamical scattering of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Weijun Cheng , Zhihai Wang , Yu-Xi Liu

We show that the scattering interaction between a high energy electron and a photon can be strongly enhanced by different types of localized plasmons in a non-trivial way. The scattering interaction is predicted by an eigen-response theory,…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-21 Kin Hung Fung , Anil Kumar , Nicholas X. Fang

In the foundation of quantum mechanics, the spatial dimensions of electron wavepacket are understood only in terms of an expectation value - the probability distribution of the particle location. One can still inquire how the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 Avraham Gover , Yiming Pan

Entanglement engineering plays a central role in quantum-enhanced technologies, with potential physical platforms that outperform their classical counterparts. However, free electrons remain largely unexplored despite their great capacity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-12 Shahaf Asban , Javier García de Abajo

Wave-packet scattering from a stationary potential is significantly modified when the wave-packet is subject to an external time-dependent force during the interaction. In the semiclassical limit, wave--packet motion is simply described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 S. Longhi , S. A. R. Horsley , G. Della Valle

Exploring the interaction of light with time-varying media is an intellectual challenge that, in addition to fundamental aspects, provides a pathway to multiple promising applications. Time modulation constitutes here a fundamental handle…

A brief overview is given of some recent advances in charged-composite particle scattering. On the theoretical side, I address the three-charged particle wave function asymptotics, the nonperturbative investigation of the long-range…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Erwin O. Alt

A theory of electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by many small particles of an arbitrary shape is developed. The particles are perfectly conducting or impedance. For a small impedance particle of an arbitrary shape an explicit analytical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 A. G. Ramm

Photons are among the most important carriers of quantum information owing to their rich degrees of freedom (DoFs), including various spatiotemporal structures. The ability to characterize these DoFs, as well as the hidden correlations…