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A version of scattering theory that was developed many years ago to treat nuclear scattering processes, has provided a powerful tool to study universality in scattering processes involving open quantum systems with underlying classically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 L. E. Reichl , G. Akguc

A generalized scattering amplitude where momenta of incoming-particles and outgoing-particles as well as positions of incoming-particles and outgoing-particles are specified is formulated. Idealistic beams and idealistic measuring…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenzo Ishikawa , Takashi Shimomura

Recent advances in electron microscopy allowed the generation of high-energy electron wave packets of ultrashort duration. Here we present a non-perturbative S-matrix theory for scattering of ultrashort electron wave packets by atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yuya Morimoto , Lars Bojer Madsen

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

Planar, disordered assemblies of small particles incorporated in layered media -- sometimes called ``disordered metasurfaces'' in the recent literature -- are becoming widespread in optics and photonics. Their ability to scatter light with…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-08 Kevin Vynck , Armel Pitelet , Louis Bellando , Philippe Lalanne

We analyze long range wave propagation in three-dimensional random waveguides. The waves are trapped by top and bottom boundaries, but the medium is unbounded in the two remaining directions. We consider scalar waves, and motivated by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

The paper concerns scattering of plane waves by a bounded obstacle with complex valued impedance boundary conditions. We study the spectrum of the Neumann-to-Dirichlet operator for small wave numbers and long wave asymptotic behavior of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

We investigate numerically the scattering of waves on discrete graphs. An efficient algorithm is developed to compute the reflection and transmission (spectral) coefficients. We then explore various configurations of input and output leads,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Moysey Brio , Jean-Guy Caputo

We analytically study a scattering of long linear surface waves on stationary currents in a duct (canal) of constant depth and variable width. It is assumed that the background velocity linearly increases or decreases with the longitudinal…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-20 Semyon Churilov , Andrei Ermakov , Yury Stepanyants

For matter wave scattering from passive quantum obstacles, we propose a phase diagram in terms of phase and modulus of scattering coefficients to explore all possible directional scattering patterns. In the phase diagram, we can not only…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-26 Jeng Yi Lee , Ray-Kuang Lee

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

Partial wave decomposition is one of the main tools within the modern S-matrix studies. We present a method to compute partial waves for $2\to2$ scattering of spinning particles in arbitrary spacetime dimension. We identify partial waves as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 Ilija Buric , Francesco Russo , Alessandro Vichi

The Helmholtz equation in one dimension, which describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves in effectively one-dimensional systems, is equivalent to the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The fact that the potential term…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

A parabolic equation for the propagation of periodic internal waves over varying bottom topography is derived using the multiple-scale perturbation method. Some computational aspects of the numerical implementation are discussed. The…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Yu. Trofimov , S. B. Kozitskiy , A. D. Zakharenko

A theory for multiple scattering of elastic waves is presented in a random medium bounded by two ideal free surfaces, whose horizontal size is infinite and whose transverse size is smaller than the mean free path of the waves. This geometry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nicolas P. Tregoures , Bart A. van Tiggelen

In this manuscript we study multiple scattering and diffusion of scalar wave in a group of monodisperse spheroidal particles with random orientations. We begin by fixing a spheroid in a prolate spheroidal coordinate system, and attain the…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-09 Mingyuan Ren , Yajing Qiao , Ning Zhou , Jianrui Gong , Yang Zhou , Yu Zhang

We present numerical and analytical results for the reflection and transmission properties of matter wave solitons impinging on localized scattering potentials in one spatial dimension. Our mean field analysis identifies regimes where the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-22 Sidse Damgaard Hansen , Nicolai Nygaard , Klaus Mølmer

It is known that the Jost-function formulation of quantum scattering theory can be applied to classical problems concerned with the scattering of a plane scalar wave by a medium with a spherically symmetric inhomogeneity of finite extent.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-05-14 Umaporn Nuntaplook , John A Adam

We analyze the scattering of linear internal waves in a two dimensional channel with subcritical bottom topography. We construct the scattering matrix for the internal wave problem in a channel with straight ends, mapping incoming data to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Zhenhao Li , Jian Wang , Jared Wunsch

We are concerned with the acoustic scattering problem by many small rigid obstacles of arbitrary shapes. We give a sufficient condition on the number $M$ and the diameter $a$ of the obstacles as well as the minimum distance $d$ between them…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Durga Prasad Challa , Mourad Sini