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The spherical gravitational collapse of a compact packet consisting of perfect fluid is studied. The spacetime outside the fluid packet is described by the out-going Vaidya radiation fluid. It is found that when the collapse has continuous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. F. Villas da Rocha , Anzhong Wang , N. O. Santos

It is easy to reason that gravity might be the effect of a fluid in disguise, as it will naturally arise in emergent gravity models where gravity is due to the effect of some fundamental particles, with the latter expected to behave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-16 Jianwei Mei

Scattering off a potential is a fundamental problem in quantum physics. It has been studied extensively with amplitudes derived for various potentials. In this article, we explore a setting with no potentials, where scattering occurs off a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-21 Eric Tan , R. Ganesh

Space-time (ST) wave packets are a class of pulsed optical beams whose spatio-temporal spectral structure results in propagation invariance, tunable group velocity, and fascinating refractive phenomena. Here, we investigate the refraction…

According to gauge/gravity correspondence, we study the holographic Schwinger effect within an anisotropic background. Firstly, the separate length of the particle-antiparticle pairs is computed within the context of an anisotropic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-26 Jing Zhou , Jun Chen , Le Zhang , Jialun Ping , Xun Chen

It is not fully understood how electromagnetic waves propagate through plasma density fluctuations when the size of the fluctuations is comparable with the wavelength of the incident radiation. In this paper, the perturbing effect of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Alf Köhn , Eberhard Holzhauer , Jarrod Leddy , Matthew B Thomas , Roddy G L Vann

We calculate the differential, total, and transport cross-sections for scattering of two-dimensional massless Dirac electrons by a circular barrier. For scatterer of a small radius, the cross-sections are dominated by quantum effects such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Jhih-Sheng Wu , Michael M. Fogler

Refraction, interference, and diffraction serve as distinguishing features for wave-like phenomena. While they are normally associated only with a purely spatial wave-propagation pattern, analogs to interference and diffraction involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 M. Jaaskelainen , M. Lombard , U. Zuelicke

The total flux of outgoing radiation in a strong gravitational field decreases due to backscattering if the sources are close to an apparent horizon. It can cause detectable changes in the shape of signals. Backscattering could well be of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Edward Malec , Niall O'Murchadha

Asymptotic solution to many-body wave scattering problem is given in the case of many small scatterers. The small scatterers can be particles whose physical properties are described by the boundary impedances, or they can be small…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 A. G. Ramm

We consider the hydrodynamic effect of small particles on the dynamics of a much larger particle moving normal to a planar wall in a highly bidisperse dilute colloidal suspension of spheres. The gap $h_0$ between the large particle and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bhattacharya , J. Blawzdziewicz

We show that dispersive gravitational waves, as a background spacetime, can reflect electromagnetic waves in a plasma. This reflection upshifts the frequency of the reflected wave, being larger for low-frequency incident waves. This effect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-28 Felipe A. Asenjo , Swadesh M. Mahajan

The group velocity of gravitational waves in a flat Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe is investigated. For plane waves with wavelength well inside the horizon, and a universe filled with an ideal fluid with the pressure to density ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-01 Vladimír Balek , Vratko Polák

In this article we present an exact and unified description of wave-packet dynamics in various 2D systems in presence of a transverse magnetic field. We consider an initial minimum-uncertainty Gaussian wave-packet, and find that its long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Ashutosh Singh , Tutul Biswas , Tarun Kanti Ghosh , Amit Agarwal

We investigate the wave effects of gravitational waves (GWs) using numerical simulations with the finite element method (FEM) based on the publicly available code {\it deal.ii}. We robustly test our code using a point source monochromatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 Jian-hua He

Electron skew scattering by impurities is one of the major mechanisms behind the anomalous Hall effect in ferromagnetic nanostructures. It is particularly strong at the surface of topological insulators where electron dynamics is governed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Cooper Finnigan , Dmitry K. Efimkin

Motivated by realistic scattering processes of composite systems, we study the dynamics of a two-particle bound system which is scattered at a mirror. The physics of the scattering process will be discussed in the cases when only one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Friedemann Queisser , William G. Unruh

We study the partial time dependent collapse of a spherically symmetric compact object with initial mass $M_1+M_2$ and final mass $M_2$ and the waves of space-time emitted during the collapse via back-reaction effects. We obtain exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-04 Jaime Mendoza Hernández , Juan Ignacio Musmarra , Mauricio Bellini

We rigorously calculate the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves by rectangular and random arrays of dielectric cylinders in a uniform medium. For regular arrays, the band structures are computed and complete bandgaps are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Bikash C. Gupta , Yu-Yu Chen , Zhen Ye

According to gauge/gravity correspondence, we study the holographic Schwinger effect within an anisotropic background. Firstly, the separate length of the particle-antiparticle pairs is computed within the context of an anisotropic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-10 Jing Zhou , Jun Chen , Le Zhang , Jialun Ping , Xun Chen