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We consider a 2D ballistic and quasi-ballistic structures with spin-orbit-related splitting of the electron spectrum. The ballistic region is attached to the leads with a voltage applied between them. We calculate the edge spin density…

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A unification of characteristic mode decomposition for all method-of-moment formulations of field integral equations describing free-space scattering is derived. The work is based on an algebraic link between impedance and transition…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Mats Gustafsson , Lukas Jelinek , Kurt Schab , Miloslav Capek

Compton scattering of twisted photons is investigated within a non-relativistic framework using first-order perturbation theory. We formulate the problem in the density matrix theory, which enables one to gain new insights into scattering…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 S. Stock , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche , D. Seipt

Scattering matrices with block symmetry, which corresponds to scattering process on cavities with geometrical symmetry, are analyzed. The distribution of transmission coefficient is computed for different number of channels in the case of a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Karol Życzkowski

The scattering potential of the defects on Ge(001) surfaces is investigated by first-principles methods. The standing wave in the spatial map of the local density of states obtained by wave function matching is compared to the image of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-09 Tomoya Ono

Random matrix theory can be used to describe the transport properties of a chaotic quantum dot coupled to leads. In such a description, two approaches have been taken in the literature, considering either the Hamiltonian of the dot or its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M L Polianski , P W Brouwer

Motivated by applications to acoustic imaging, the present work establishes a framework to analyze scattering for the one-dimensional wave, Helmholtz, Schr\"odinger and Riccati equations that allows for coefficients which are more singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Peter C. Gibson

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

I derive a general set of boundary conditions for quasiclassical transport theory of metals and superconductors that is valid for equilibrium and non-equilibrium situations and includes multi-band systems, weakly and strongly spin-polarized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-22 Matthias Eschrig

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

We review recent progress in analysing wave scattering in systems with both intrinsic chaos and/or disorder and internal losses, when the scattering matrix is no longer unitary. By mapping the problem onto a nonlinear supersymmetric…

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

Predicting the optical response of macroscopic arrangements of individual scatterers is a computational challenge, as the problem involves length scales across multiple orders of magnitude. We present a full-wave optical method to highly…

Scattering states with LEED asymptotics are calculated for a general non-muffin tin potential, as e.g. for a pseudopotential with a suitable barrier and image potential part. The latter applies especially to the case of low lying conduction…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Lorenz , C. Solterbeck , W. Schattke , J. Burmeister , W. Hackbusch

We have developed a scattering-matrix approach for numerical calculation of resonant states and Q-values of a nonideal optical disk cavity of an arbitrary shape and of an arbitrary varying refraction index. The developed method has been…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. I. Rahachou , I. V. Zozoulenko

Multicomponent-multiband fluxes of spim-charge carriers, whose components propagate mixed and synchronously, with \emph{a priori} nonzero incoming amplitudes, do not obey the standard unitarity condition on the scattering matrix for an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-13 L. Diago-Cisneros , J. J. Flores-Godoy , G. Fernández-Anaya

We propose a divide-and-conquer algorithm to find recursively the Scattering matrix of general tight-binding structures. The Scattering matrix allows a direct calculation of transport properties in mesoscopic systems by using the Landauer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Mauricio J. Rodríguez , Carlos Ramírez

This paper provides an analysis of radio wave scattering for frequencies ranging from the microwave to the Terahertz band (e.g., 1 GHz - 1 THz), by studying the scattering power reradiated from various types of materials with different…

We sketch a derivation of abstract scattering theory from the microscopic first principles defined by Bohmian mechanics. We emphasize the importance of the flux-across-surfaces theorem for the derivation, and of randomness in the impact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Detlef Duerr , Sheldon Goldstein , Stefan Teufel , Nino Zanghi

A new approach is developed within the first-order Born approximation to light scattering from a collection of particles with $\mathcal{L}$ types. Two $\mathcal{L}\times\mathcal{L}$ matrices called pair-potential matrix (PPM) and…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yi Ding

Employing tight-binding approximation we derive a transfer matrix formalism for one-dimensional single photon transport through a composite scattering center, which consists of parallel connected resonator optical waveguides. By solving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Yu Jiang , M. Lozada-Cassou