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For coupled-channel resonance scattering we derive a model with a closed form solution for the $T$-matrix that satisfies unitarity and analyticity. The two-channel case is handled explicitly for an arbitrary number of resonances. The method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 N. E. Ligterink

We report the observation of a broad magnetic Feshbach resonance with a large background scattering length in an ultracold fermionic mixture of $^{23}$Na$^{40}$K molecules and $^{40}$K atoms, with both species prepared in their lowest…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-25 Zhen Su , Tong-Hui Shou , Huan Yang , Jin Cao , Bo-Yuan Wang , Ting Xie , Jun Rui , Bo Zhao , Jian-Wei Pan

We report a variational approach to the nonlinearly screened interaction of charged particles with a many-electron system. This approach has been developed by introducing a modification of the Schwinger variational principle of scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. U. Nazarov , S. Nishigaki , J. M. Pitarke , C. S. Kim

An ion and a polar molecule interact by an anisotropic ion-dipole potential scaling as $- \alpha \cos (\theta)/r^2$ at large distances. Due to its long-range character, it modifies the properties of angular wave functions, which are no…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Tomasz Wasak , Zbigniew Idziaszek

The coupled-channel theory is a natural way of treating nonelastic channels, in particular those arising from collective excitations, defined by nuclear deformations. Proper treatment of such excitations is often essential to the accurate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 G. P. A. Nobre , F. S. Dietrich , M. Herman , A. Palumbo , S. Hoblit , D. Brown

Scattering is an important phenomenon which is observed in systems ranging from the micro- to macroscale. In the context of nuclear reaction theory the Heidelberg approach was proposed and later demonstrated to be applicable to many chaotic…

We describe a new method to treat low-energy scattering problems in few-nucleon systems, and we apply it to the five-body case of neutron-alpha scattering. The method allows precise calculations of low-lying resonances and their widths. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenneth M. Nollett , Steven C. Pieper , R. B. Wiringa , J. Carlson , G. M. Hale

The Sudden Approximation (SA) for scattering of atoms from surfaces is generalized to allow for double collision events and scattering from time-dependent quantum liquid surfaces. The resulting new schemes retain the simplicity of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Daniel A. Lidar

A general approach to a solution of few- and many-body scattering problems based on a continuum-discretization procedure is described in detail. The complete discretization of continuous spectrum is realized using stationary wave packets…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-16 O. A. Rubtsova , V. I. Kukulin , V. N. Pomerantsev

Two-body dissipation usually gives rise to a complex interaction. Here, we study the effect of two-body dissipation on few-body physics, including the fundamental two-body effective scattering and the three-body Efimov physics. By employing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-30 Lihong Zhou , Xiaoling Cui

Background: Nuclear reactions are complex, with a large number of possible channels. Understanding how different channels contribute to a given reaction is investigated by perturbing the continuous spectrum. Purpose: To develop tools to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-06-28 Brady J. Martin , Wayne N. Polyzou

In this letter, we investigate the coherent tunneling process of photons between a defected circular resonator and a waveguide based on the recently developed discrete coordinate scattering methods (L. Zhou et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101,…

Optics · Physics 2008-10-30 Jun Yang , H. Dong , C. P. Sun

A modified static exchange model is introduced, it could be useful to control the elastic s-wave scattering length in studying cold-atomic interaction. The theory includes the long-range van der Waals interaction in addition to short-range…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 Hasi Ray

We use an atomic fountain clock to measure quantum scattering phase shifts precisely through a series of narrow, low-field Feshbach resonances at average collision energies below $1\,\mu$K. Our low spread in collision energy yields phase…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-19 Aaron Bennett , Kurt Gibble , Servaas Kokkelmans , Jeremy M. Hutson

We analyse the scattering rate of an impurity atom in a Fermi sea as a function of momentum and temperature in the BCS-BEC crossover. The cross section is calculated using a microscopic multichannel theory for the Feshbach resonance…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-19 Rasmus Søgaard Christensen , Georg M. Bruun

We study numerically classical collisions of waves in $\lambda\phi^4$ theory. These processes correspond to multiparticle scattering in the semiclassical regime. Parametrizing initial and final wavepackets by energy $E$ and particle numbers…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-10 S. V. Demidov , B. R. Farkhtdinov

We study one- and two-photon scattering from a qubit embedded in a one-dimensional waveguide in the presence of modal dispersion. We use a resolvent based analysis and utilize techniques borrowed from the Lee model studies. Modal dispersion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-16 Şükrü Ekin Kocabaş

Recent experiments performed on weakly pinched quantum point contacts, have shown a resistance that tend to decrease at low source drain voltage. We show that enhanced Coulomb interactions, prompt by the presence of the point contact, may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Dganit Meidan , Yuval Oreg

An intriguing phenomenon in molecular collisions is the occurrence of scattering resonances, which originate from bound and quasi-bound states supported by the interaction potential at low collision energies. The resonance effects in the…

Collisional resonances are an important tool which has been used to modify interactions in ultracold gases, for realizing novel Hamiltonians in quantum simulations, for creating molecules from atomic gases and for controlling chemical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-06 Juliana J. Park , Yu-Kun Lu , Alan O. Jamison , Timur Tscherbul , Wolfgang Ketterle