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\begin_layout Title
Technical notes on quantum electromagnetic multiple scattering
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\begin_layout Author
Marek Nečada
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\begin_layout Affiliation
COMP Centre of Excellence, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University,
 P.O.
 Box 15100, Fi-00076 Aalto, Finland
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Theory of quantum electromagnetic multiple scattering
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Incoherent pumping
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Cf.
 Wubs 
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, Delga 
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.
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General initial states
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Look at 
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 for an inspiration for solving the LS equation with an arbitrary initial
 state.
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Computing classical Green's functions
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Boundary element method
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T-Matrix method
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T-Matrix resummation (multiple scatterers)
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BEM→TM
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Available software
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SCUFF-EM 
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Caveats
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Units.
 
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\emph on
TODO what are the output units?
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MSTM 
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The incident field is a gaussian beam or a plane wave in the vanilla code
 (no multipole radiation as input!).
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The bulk of the useful code is in the 
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For solving the interaction equations 
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, the BCGM (biconjugate gradient method) is used.
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According to the manual 
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, they use some method (rotational-axial translation decomposition of the
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reduces the operation from an 
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 process to 
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 process where 
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 is the truncation order of the expansion
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 (more details can probably be found at 
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\emph on
Not sure if this holds also for nonspherical particles, I should either
 read carefully 
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 or look into 
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 which is also cited in the manual.
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By default spheres, it is possible to add own T-Matrix coefficients instead.
 
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Is it then possible to insert a T-Matrix of an arbitrary shape, or is it
 somehow limited to 
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spherical-like
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 particles?
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Why the heck are the T-matrix options listed in the 
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Options for random orientation calculations
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?
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