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The aim of the lecture is to briefly describe the mathematical background of scattering theory for two- and three-particle quantum systems. We discuss basic objects of the theory: wave and scattering operators and the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Dmitri Yafaev

The R-matrix method is a fully-quantum time-independent scattering method, used to simulate nuclear, electron-atom, electron-ion, electron-molecule scattering and more. Here, a novel R-matrix method, RmatReact, is presented as applied to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 T. Rivlin , L. K. McKemmish , K. E. Spinlove , J. Tennyson

Multichannel Quantum Defect Theory (MQDT) is shown to be capable of producing quantitatively accurate results for low-energy atom-molecule scattering calculations. With a suitable choice of reference potential and short-range matching…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 James F. E. Croft , Alisdair O. G. Wallis , Jeremy M. Hutson , Paul S. Julienne

We study the scattering of low-energy tensor multiplet particles against a BPS saturated cosmic string. We show that the corresponding S-matrix is largely determined by symmetry considerations. We then apply a specific supersymmetric model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Erik Flink

We deduce the coherent backscattering signal from two distant laser-driven atoms using single-atom equations. In contrast to the standard master equation treatment, this new approach is suitable for the generalization to a large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Thomas Wellens , Tobias Geiger , Vyacheslav Shatokhin , Andreas Buchleitner

We extend the T-matrix approach to light scattering by spherical particles to some simple cases in which the scatterers are optically anisotropic. Specifically we consider cases in which the spherical particles include radially and…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Kiselev , V. Yu Reshetnyak , T. J. Sluckin

The effective field theory with contact interactions alone is a powerful tool to compute low-energy observables for three-body systems with large scattering length. Recent calculations including effective range corrections are discussed and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Platter

Subwavelength atomic arrays are a leading platform for engineering light-matter interactions, enabling near-perfect single-photon mirrors and robust quantum memories based on long-lived dark spin waves. However, a comprehensive theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Yidan Wang , Oriol Rubies-Bigorda , Valentin Walther , Susanne F. Yelin

An effective field theory developed for systems interacting through short-range interactions can be applied to systems of cold atoms with a large scattering length and to nucleons at low energies. It is therefore the ideal tool to analyze…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-09 L. Platter

Effective field theories exploit a separation of scales in physical systems in order to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. They are ideally suited to describe universal aspects of a wide range of physical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 H. -W. Hammer

The energy spectrum of two short-range interacting particles in a harmonic potential trap has previously been related to free-space scattering phase shifts. But the existing formula for this purpose is exact only in the limit of an…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Xilin Zhang

We present an extension of the T-matrix approach to scattering of light by a three-level system, using a description based on a Master equation. More particularly, we apply our formalism to calculate the T-matrix of a pumped three-level…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Tom Savels , Allard Mosk , Ad Lagendijk

The paper derives the representation of the two-particle T-matrix scattering elements for the Coulomb interaction with respect to special bases without expansion in terms of partial waves. The results obtained are applicable to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Robert Akhmetyanov , Elena Shikhovtseva

The J-matrix method of scattering was developed to handle regular short-range potentials with applications in atomic, nuclear and molecular physics. Its accuracy, stability, and convergence properties compare favorably with other successful…

The Schroedinger equation with an energy-dependent complex absorbing potential, associated with a scattering system, can be reduced for a special choice of the energy-dependence to a harmonic inversion problem of a discrete pseudo-time…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Neumaier , V. A. Mandelshtam

Scattering theory for p-forms on manifolds with cylindrical ends has a direct interpretation in terms of cohomology. Using the Hodge isomorphism,the scattering matrix at low energy may be regarded as operator on the cohomology of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Werner Mueller , Alexander Strohmaier

The multiple scattering method T-matrix (MSTMM) can be used to solve the electromagnetic response of systems consisting of many compact scatterers, retaining a good level of accuracy while using relatively few degrees of freedom, largely…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-16 Marek Nečada , Päivi Törmä

Formalism based on complex-scaling method is developed for solving the few particle scattering problem by employing only trivial boundary conditions. Several applications are presented proving efficiency of the method in describing elastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Rimantas Lazauskas , Jaume Carbonell

We present a generic transfer matrix approach for the description of the interaction of atoms possessing multiple ground state and excited state sublevels with light fields. This model allows us to treat multi-level atoms as classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 André Xuereb , Peter Domokos , Peter Horak , Tim Freegarde

The coupled eta-N, pi-N, gamma-N system is described by a K-matrix method. The parameters in this model are adjusted to get an optimal fit to pi-N --->pi- N$, pi-N --->eta-N$, gamma-N--->pi-N and gamma-N --->eta-N data in an energy range of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Green , S. Wycech