Theoretical seminar | 10 December 2025

In my lecture, I will give an overview of the so called operator scattering theory taking more attention to gyrotropic cylindrical and spherical particles. I will discuss applications of the theory to Weyl semimetals and present typical applications.

Main paper/arXiv, related to the seminar, and other references

1. M.M. Kharton, L. Gao, D. Gao, A. Novitsky, Operator scattering theory for multilayer cylinders comprising gyrotropic materials and its application to Weyl semimetals, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 111, 033520 (2025).
2. A. Novitsky, D. Gao, L. Gao, Y. Liang, D.V. Novitsky, Scattering peculiarities of Weyl semimetal rotationally symmetric spherical particles, Phys. Rev. B, vol. 112, 045149 (2025).
3. A. Novitsky and L. Barkovsky, Matrix approach for light scattering from a multilayered rotationally symmetric bianisotropic sphere. // Physical Review A, v. 77, 033849 (2008).