Scattering off a junction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.12592v1
• Date: Sun, 21 May 2023 23:03:11 GMT
• Title: Scattering off a junction
• Authors: Eric Tan, R. Ganesh
• Abstract summary: We study a setting with no potentials, where scattering occurs off a junction where many wires meet. When an incoming wave scatters, one part is reflected along the same wire while the rest is transmitted along the others. We verify our analytic results by simulating wavepacket motion through a junction.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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 junction where many wires meet. We study this problem using a tight-binding discretization of a star graph geometry -- one incoming wire and $M$ outgoing wires intersecting at a point. When an incoming wave scatters, one part is reflected along the same wire while the rest is transmitted along the others. Remarkably, the reflectance increases monotonically with $M$, i.e., the greater the number of outgoing channels, the more the particle bounces back. In the $M \rightarrow \infty$ limit, the wave is entirely reflected back along the incoming wire. We rationalize this observation by establishing a quantitative mapping between a junction and an on-site potential. To each junction, we assign an equivalent potential that produces the same reflectance. As the number of wires ($M$) increases, the equivalent potential also increases. A recent article by one of us has drawn an equivalence between junctions and potentials from the point of view of bound state formation. Our results here show that the same equivalence also holds for scattering amplitudes. We verify our analytic results by simulating wavepacket motion through a junction. We extend the wavepacket approach to two dimensions where analytic solutions cannot be found. An incoming wave travels on a sheet and scatters off a point where many sheets intersect. Unlike in 1D, the equivalent potential is momentum-dependent. Nevertheless, for any given momentum, the equivalent potential grows monotonically with the number of intersecting sheets. Our findings can be tested in ultracold atom setups and semiconductor structures.

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