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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

We observe that the reflection and transmission coefficients of a particle within a double, PT symmetric heterojunction with spatially varying mass, show interesting features, depending on the degree of non Hermiticity, although there is no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Anjana Sinha , R. Roychoudhury

The paper is devoted to a numerical study of the problem of interaction of the wave packet with potential structures moving with constant acceleration. In all the cases considered the result of the interaction is a change in the velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 M. A. Zakharov , G. V. Kulin , A. I. Frank

Materials that dissipate energy efficiently under high-speed impacts, from micrometeoroid strikes on spacecraft to ballistic penetration in protective systems, are essential for maintaining structural integrity in extreme environments. Yet,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Yasara Dharmadasa , Nicholas Jaegersberg , Ara Kim , Jizhe Cai , Ramathasan Thevamaran

The analytical study of long wave scattering in a canal with a rapidly varying cross-section is presented. It is assumed that waves propagate on a stationary current with a given flow rate. Due to the fixed flow rate, the current speed is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-19 Semyon Churilov , Andrei Ermakov , Germain Rousseaux , Yury Stepanyants

Phase-space procedure based on coherent state representation is proposed for investigation of reflection and transmission of light beams at a curved dielectric boundary. Numerical simulations of reflection and transmission of light at…

Optics · Physics 2011-01-06 Nikolai I. Petrov

In this paper we show how to measure in the setting of digital quantum simulations the reflection and transmission amplitudes of the one-dimensional scattering of a particle with a short-ranged potential. The main feature of the protocol is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Giuseppe Mussardo , Andrea Stampiggi , Andrea Trombettoni

By applying continuity and boundary conditions, the reflection and transmission coefficients of one-dimensional time-independent Schr\"odinger equation with a symmetric barrier-type shifted Deng-Fan potential are obtained and discussed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 O J Oluwadare , K J Oyewumi , K-E Thylwe , S Hassanabadi

We investigate the scattering process of impulse from impurities in vertical granular chain system under gravity. Most of the studies are focused on the case of light impurities. The reflection rates follow power laws with the impuity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Aiguo Xu

Electron motion in an oblique shock wave is studied by means of a one-dimensional, relativistic, electromagnetic, particle simulation code with full ion and electron dynamics. It is found that an oblique shock can produce electrons with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Naoki Bessho , Yukiharu Ohsawa

We study the distribution of transmission eigenvalues of a quantum point contact with nearby impurities. In the semi-classical case (the chemical potential lies at the conductance plateau) we find that the transmission properties of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Campagnano , O. N. Jouravlev , Ya. M. Blanter , Yu. V. Nazarov

We study the quantum Goos-H\"{a}nchen (GH) shift and the tunneling transmission at a curved step potential by investigating the time evolution of a wave packet. An initial wave packet is expanded in terms of the eigenmodes of a circular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Soo-Young Lee , Jérémy Le Deunff , Muhan Choi , Roland Ketzmerick

Wave-packet scattering from a stationary potential is significantly modified when the wave-packet is subject to an external time-dependent force during the interaction. In the semiclassical limit, wave--packet motion is simply described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 S. Longhi , S. A. R. Horsley , G. Della Valle

A perfectly reflecting accelerating boundary produces thermal emission to an observer at $\mathscr{I}_L^+$ and a finite amount of energy to an observer at $\mathscr{I}_R^+$ by asymptotically traveling to the speed of light without an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 Michael R. R. Good

We investigate the passivity constraints on the relations between transmission, reflection, and absorption eigenvalues in linear time-invariant systems. Using techniques from matrix analysis, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-08 Cheng Guo , Shanhui Fan

Inertial waves in fluid regions of planets and stars play an important role in their dynamics and evolution, through energy, heat and angular momentum transport and mixing of chemicals. While inertial wave propagation in flows prescribed by…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Lennart Kira , Jerome Noir , Daniel Lecoanet

We predict and study theoretically a new nonlinear electromagnetic phenomenon in a sample of layered superconductor of finite length placed in a waveguide with ideal walls. Two geometries are considered here: when the superconducting layers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 T. N. Rokhmanova , S. S. Apostolov , Z. A. Maizelis , V. A. Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

The electron transmission $T$ is evaluated through waveguides, in which the strength of the spin-orbit interaction(SOI) $\alpha$ is varied periodically, using the transfer-matrix technique. It is shown that $T$ exhibits a {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos

We derive an exact analytical solution to the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for transmission of a Gaussian wave packet through an arbitrary potential of finite range. We consider the situation where the initial Gaussian wave packet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 Sergio Cordero , Gaston Garcia-Calderon

The propagation of the wave function of a particle is characterised by a group and a phase velocity. The group velocity is associated with the particle's classical velocity, which is always smaller than the speed of light, and the phase…

General Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 Clovis Jacinto de Matos