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The Monte Carlo technique is used to calculate electrical as well as thermoelectric transport properties across thin film heterostructures. We study a thin InGaAsP barrier layer sandwiched between two InGaAs contact layers, when the barrier…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Mona Zebarjadi , Ali Shakouri , Keivan Esfarjani

A simple Monte Carlo procedure is described for simulating the multiple scattering and absorption of electrons with the incident energy in the range 1-50 keV moving through a slab of uniformly distributed material of given atomic number,…

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In medical applications -- such as positron emission tomography (PET) -- $511$keV photons that experience Compton scattering are studied. We present a consistent framework based on error-correction channels to fully describe the quantum…

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By means of a Monte Carlo code that accounts for Compton scattering and photoabsorption followed by recombination, we have investigated the radiation transfer of Ly alpha, He alpha, and recombination continua photons of H- and He-like C, N,…

We propose a simple and reliable method to study the translational relaxation of 'hot' H atoms following their production by chemical mechanisms. The problem is relevant to PDR's, shocks, photospheres, atmospheric entry problems. We show…

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Ongoing MeV telescopes such as INTEGRAL/SPI and Fermi/GBM, and proposed telescopes including the recently accepted COSI and the e-ASTROGAM and AMEGO missions, provide another window in understanding transients. Their signals contain…

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We analyze the line radiative transfer in protoplanetary disks using several approximate methods and a well-tested Accelerated Monte Carlo code. A low-mass flaring disk model with uniform as well as stratified molecular abundances is…

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We present theoretical expectations for non-thermal emission due to the bulk Comptonization at the ultra-relativistic shock breakout. We calculate the transfer of photons emitted from the shocked matter with a Monte Carlo code fully taking…

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Absorption and emission spectra of multicharged-ion plasmas contain a huge number of electron configurations and electric-dipolar lines, which can be handled by global methods. However, some transition arrays consist only of a small bunch…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 Jean-Christophe Pain , Franck Gilleron , Quentin Porcherot , Thomas Blenski

Measured values of the brightness temperature of low-frequency synchrotron radiation emitted by powerful extragalactic sources reach 10^11--10^12 K. If some amount of nonrelativistic ionized gas is present within such sources, it should be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sergei Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev

The Radiative transfer coherent backscattering (RT-CB) code is extended to apply to dense discrete random media of optically soft spherical particles. This is achieved by utilizing the well-known static-structure-factor (SSF) correction…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-23 Johannes Markkanen , Antti Penttilä

A photoionized gas in thermal equilibrium can display a thermal instability, with 3 or more solutions in the multi-branch region of the S-shape curve giving the temperature versus the radiation-to-gas-pressure ratio. Many studies have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. C. Goncalves , S. Collin , A. -M. Dumont , L. Chevallier

The Lya line transfer in an extremely thick medium of neutral hydrogen is investigated by adopting an accelerating scheme in our Monte Carlo code to skip a large number of core or resonant scatterings. This scheme reduces computing time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sang-Hyeon Ahn , Hee-Won Lee , Hyung Mok Lee

We combine a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code with an SPH code, so that -- assuming thermal equilibrium -- we can calculate dust-temperature fields, spectral energy distributions, and isophotal maps, for the individual time-frames…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dimitris Stamatellos , Anthony Whitworth

Computer simulations of photon transport through an absorbing and/or scattering medium form an important research tool in astrophysics. Nearly all software codes performing such simulations for three-dimensional geometries employ the Monte…

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We present the results of a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code that calculates the polarization produced by multiple Thomson scattering and variable absorptive opacity in a circumstellar disk around one component of a close detached binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jennifer L. Hoffman , Barbara A. Whitney , Kenneth H. Nordsieck

The problem of the anisotropic Inverse Compton scattering between a monochromatic photon beam and relativistic electrons is revisited and formally solved without approximations. Solutions are given for the single scattering with an electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. Brunetti

We present a new approach to numerically model continuum radiative transfer based on the Optically Thin Variable Eddington Tensor (OTVET) approximation. Our method insures the exact conservation of the photon number and flux (in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Tom Abel

This paper presents a new encryption scheme called Compact Coding that encodes information in time, phase, and intensity domains, simultaneously. While these approaches have previously been used one at a time, the proposed scheme brings to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Rasha El Hajj , Pramode Verma , Kam Wai Clifford Chan