Networked supercomputers at Tokyo, Japan and Ferrara, Italy are also used. Examples include calculations of scattering at gradual and rough interfaces, and imperfect mutlilayers. The effects of strong scattering, and applications to more general scattering from disordered systems are also being considered. Some aspects of this work are related to the University at Albany x-ray and neutron optics program. One example is the study of phenomena involving both crystal diffraction and quantum electrodynamics.
Diffraction affects the emission of x rays by relativistic electrons.
Possible application include the development of new intense x-ray sources. This research ranges from applied to purely theoretical physics, and it can provide theoretical students with a wide variety of marketable skills. Path integral techniques in quantum mechanics and statistical physics are also investigated in collaboration with a theory group at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, Germany.