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In this paper, the scattering/transmission inside a step-modulated subwavelength metal slit is investigated in detail. We firstly investigate the scattering in a junction structure by two types of structural changes. The variation of…

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This article investigates the properties of a few interacting particles trapped in a few wells and how these properties change under adiabatic tuning of interaction strength and inter-well tunneling. While some system properties are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 N. L. Harshman

I review how methods from mesoscopic physics can be applied to describe the multiple wave scattering and complex wave dynamics in non-hermitian PT-symmetric resonators, where an absorbing region is coupled symmetrically to an amplifying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 Henning Schomerus

This paper proposes a new multiple-scattering frequency-time hybrid (FTH-MS) integral equation solver for problems of wave scattering by obstacles in two dimensional space, including interior problems in closed cavities and problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Shuai Pan , Gang Bao , Tao Yin , Oscar P. Bruno

We study the phenomenon of one-dimensional non-resonant tunnelling through two successive potential barriers, separated by an intermediate free region R, by analyzing the relevant solutions to the Schroedinger equation. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Vladislav S. Olkhovsky , Erasmo Recami , Giovanni Salesi

It is shown that the Hartman-Fletcher effect is valid for all the known expressions of the mean tunnelling time, in various nonrelativistic approaches, for the case of finite width barriers without absorption. Then, we show that the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Jakiel , V. S. Olkhovsky , Erasmo Recami

Multiple scattering of waves presents challenges for imaging complex media but offers potential for their characterization. Its onset is actually governed by the scattering mean free path $\ell_s$ that provides crucial information on the…

A mathematical method for through-wall imaging via wave phenomena in the time domain is introduced. The method makes use of a single reflected wave over a finite time interval and gives us a criterion whether a penetrable obstacle exists or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Masaru Ikehata

We study the time required for a wave packet to tunnel beyond a square barrier, or to be reflected, by envisaging a physical clock which ticks only when the particle is within the barrier region. The clock consists in a magnetic moment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Andrea Begliuomini , Luciano Bracci

Hydrodynamic interactions in a suspension of spherical particles confined between two parallel planar walls are studied under creeping-flow conditions. The many-particle friction matrix in this system is evaluated using our novel numerical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bhattacharya , J. Blawzdziewicz , E. Wajnryb

We investigate the scattering of two distinguishable particles with unequal masses and a mutual short-range interaction with the aim of quantifying the impact of a tunneling ``projectile'' particle on the quantum mechanical state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Roman Michelko , Peter Bokes

In this paper a theory of reflective X-ray multilayer structures with a graded (slowly varying) period based on the coupled waves method and quasi-classical asymptotic expansions is reported. A number of exact solutions of the coupled wave…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-26 R. M. Feshchenko

A complete one-dimensional scattering of a spinless particle on a time-independent potential barrier is considered. To describe separately transmitted and reflected particles in the corresponding subsets of identical experiments, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. L. Chuprikov

This work presents an extensive exploration of scattering and tunneling involving composite objects with intrinsic degrees of freedom. We aim at exact solutions to such scattering problems. Along this path we demonstrate solution to model…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-01-28 Naureen Ahsan , Alexander Volya

We study the relativistic quantum mechanical problem of a Dirac particle tunneling through two successive electrostatic barriers. Our aim is to study the emergence of the so-called \emph{Generalized Hartman Effect}, an effect observed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 José T. Lunardi , Luiz A. Manzoni

The tunneling effect of a periodic potential with an asymmetric twin barrier per period is calculated using the instanton method. The model is derived from the Hamiltonian of a small ferromagnetic particle in an external magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. -Q. Liang , H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten , Jian-Ge Zhou , F. Zimmerschied , F. -C. Pu

A detailed analysis of the wave-mode structure in a bend and its incorporation into a stable algorithm for calculation of the scattering matrix of the bend is presented. The calculations are based on the modal approach. The stability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin Horvat , Tomaz Prosen

We consider wave propagation across an infinite waveguide of an arbitrary bounded cross-section, whose interior is blocked by two identical thick barriers with holes. When the holes are small, the waves over a broad range of frequencies are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 A. Delitsyn , D. S. Grebenkov

We investigate the tunneling time of a wave packet propagating through a non-Hermitian potential $V_{r} - iV_{i}$ in space-fractional quantum mechanics. By applying the stationary phase method, we derive a closed-form expression for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Mohammad Umar , Vibhav Narayan Singh , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

A model for quantum tunnelling of a cluster comprising A identical particles, coupled by oscillator-type potential, through short-range repulsive potential barriers is introduced for the first time in the new symmetrized-coordinate…