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Many-body quantum-mechanical scattering problem is solved asymptotically when the size of the scatterers (inhomogeneities) tends to zero and their number tends to infinity. A method is given for calculation of the number of small…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. G. Ramm

The spectral and localization properties of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric optical superlattices, either infinitely extended or truncated at one side, are theoretically investigated, and the criteria that ensure a real energy spectrum are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Stefano Longhi

Parity-time (PT) symmetry is of great interest. The reciprocal and unidirectional features are intriguing besides the PT symmetry phase transition. Recently, the reciprocal transmission, unidirectional reflectionless and invisibility are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 L. Jin , X. Z. Zhang , G. Zhang , Z. Song

A non-standard generalisation of the Bender potentials $x^2(\ii x^\ve)$ is suggested. The spectra are obtained numerically and some of their particular properties are discussed.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hynek Bíla

New solvable one-dimensional quantum mechanical scattering problems are presented. They are obtained from known solvable potentials by multiple Darboux transformations in terms of virtual and pseudo virtual wavefunctions. The same method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 C. -L. Ho , J. -C. Lee , R. Sasaki

Large families of Hamiltonians that are non-Hermitian in the conventional sense have been found to have all eigenvalues real, a fact attributed to an unbroken PT symmetry. The corresponding quantum theories possess an unconventional scalar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zafar Ahmed , Carl M. Bender , M. V. Berry

This paper is concerned with the inverse elastic scattering problem for a random potential in three dimensions. Interpreted as a distribution, the potential is assumed to be a microlocally isotropic Gaussian random field whose covariance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

Using a generalized T-matrix description which, in principle, exactly includes Coulomb correlations and potential scattering events, resonant and bound impurity states are discussed. Like in the non-interacting case, the effects of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 W. Ziegler , D. Poilblanc , R. Preuss , W. Hanke , D. J. Scalapino

The behavior of solitons in integrable theories is strongly constrained by the integrability of the theory, that is by the existence of an infinite number of conserved quantities that these theories are known to possess. As a result the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Theodora Ioannidou

A condition, at which the one-dimensional inverse power potential becomes reflectionless during propagation through it of a plane wave, is obtained on the basis of SUSY QM methods. A scattering of a particle on spherically symmetric inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei P. Maydanyuk

We give a short description of the proof of asymptotic-completeness for NLS-type equations, including time dependent potential terms, with radial data in three dimensions. We also show how the method applies for the two-body Quantum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-29 Baoping Liu , Avy Soffer

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

We develop a dynamical formulation of one-dimensional scattering theory where the reflection and transmission amplitudes for a general, possibly complex and energy-dependent, scattering potential are given as solutions of a set of dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ali Mostafazadeh

Spectral singularities are spectral points that spoil the completeness of the eigenfunctions of certain non-Hermitian Hamiltonian operators. We identify spectral singularities of complex scattering potentials with the real energies at which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-24 Ali Mostafazadeh

Recent studies of transport phenomena with complex potentials are explained by generic square root singularities of spectrum and eigenfunctions of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. Using a two channel problem we demonstrate that such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 W. D. Heiss , R. G. Nazmitdinov

Effective mass Klein-Gordon equation for the asymmetric Hulth{\'e}n potential is solved in terms of hypergeometric functions. Results are obtained for the scattering and bound states with the position dependent mass and constant mass, as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Oktay Aydoğdu , Altug Arda , Ramazan Sever

This paper develops a scattering theory for the asymmetric transport observed at interfaces separating two-dimensional topological insulators. Starting from the spectral decomposition of an unperturbed interface Hamiltonian, we present a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Binglu Chen , Guillaume Bal

For complex one-dimensional potentials, we propose the asymmetry of both reflectivity and transmitivity under time-reversal: $R(-k)\ne R(k)$ and $T(-k) \ne T(k)$, unless the potentials are real or PT-symmetric. For complex PT-symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zafar Ahmed

In quantum scattering, Hermiticity is necessary for both reciprocity and unitarity. Reciprocity means that both reflectivity (R) and transmitivity (T) are insensitive to the direction of incidence of a wave (particle) at a scatterer from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Zafar Ahmed

We prove $H^1$ scattering for defocusing NLS with a delta potential and mass-supercritical nonlinearity, hence extending in an inhomogeneous setting the classical 1-D scattering results first proved by Nakanishi in the translation invariant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Valeria Banica , Nicola Visciglia