A famous Chinese city, which Olena and I visited for a conference AERSS 2023 Annual Meeting.


Wuhan 2023

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Yurkin M.A. Discrete dipole approximation, in Light, Plasmonics and Particles, ed. Menguc M.P. and Francoeur M., Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp.167-198 (2023). (PDF)

It has been 10 years since my previous book chapter, but the current chapter with the least original title possible is also from the previous life. I submitted the first version in early ( Read more... )

Kichigin A.A. and Yurkin M.A. Simulating electron energy-loss spectroscopy and cathodoluminescence for particles in arbitrary host medium using the discrete dipole approximation, J. Phys. Chem. C 127, 4154-4167 (2023). (PDF)

A third paper in a row, although it took a bit longer than expected in the proofs stage. It started four years ago with a ( Read more... )

Romanov A.V., Maltsev V.P., and Yurkin M.A. Retrieving refractive index of single spheres using the phase spectrum of light-scattering pattern, Opt. Laser Technol. 161, 109141 (2023). (PDF)

The second (but not last...) paper in a row. It is a nice example of moving from pure theory to practical applications. In another recent paper we developed a ( Read more... )

Yurkin M.A. Fair evaluation of orientation-averaging techniques in light-scattering simulations: Comment on “Evaluation of higher-order quadrature schemes in improving computational efficiency for orientation-averaged single-scattering properties of nonspherical ice particles” by Fenni et al., J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 128, e2021JD036088 (2023). (PDF ( Read more... )

Another part of Istanbul is Princes' Islands - a standard inclusion in any tour over the city. It is called so because many princes were exiled there during the Byzantine and Ottoman times.


Princes' Islands, Istanbul

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Living in an old and magnificent city, such as Istanbul, motivates one to study it in details. Here are some photos from two not so well-known parts of this city:


Fener & Balat, Istanbul

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Samarkand 2022

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For the first time in my life I visited Uzbekistan - a very interesting country indeed. I spent there two weeks, but there is much more to see. Most of these two weeks I was in Tashkent. Below are two photo albums (second one is specially for its famous metro):


Tashkent 2022

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Glukhova S.A. and Yurkin M.A. Vector Bessel beams: General classification and scattering simulations, Phys. Rev. A 106, 033508 (2022). (PDF)

I guess, everybody heard about interesting features of the Bessel beams, such as the ability to propagate over a long distance without diffraction. So we had a natural idea to implement these beams in the ADDA ( Read more... )