Beyond quasi-optics: an exact approach to self-diffraction, reflection and finite-waist focusing of matter wave trajectories

Adriano Orefice, Raffaele Giovanelli, Domenico Ditto

The "main road" open by de Broglie's and Schroedinger's discovery of matter waves and of their eigen-functions branched off, as is well known, into different "sub-routes". The most…