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A stochastic model is presented for a super-position of uncorrelated pulses with a random distribution of amplitudes, sizes, velocities and arrival times. The pulses are assumed to move radially with fixed shape and amplitudes decaying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 J. M. Losada , A. Theodorsen , O. E. Garcia

The maximum product of spacings (MPS) is employed in the estimation of the Generalized Extreme Value Distribution (GEV) and the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD). Efficient estimators are obtained by the MPS for all $\gamma$. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 T. S. T. Wong , W. K. Li

Raman scattering from a great number of phonon modes is described from a quantum-statistical point of view within the standing-wave model. The master equation for the completely quantum case, including laser pump depletion and stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 Adam Miranowicz , Stanislaw Kielich

Extreme scattering events (ESEs) in the interstellar medium (ISM) were first observed in regular flux measurements of compact extragalactic sources. They are characterized by a flux variation over a period of weeks, suggesting the passage…

Random lasers have been recently approached as a photonic platform for disordered complex systems, such as spin glasses. In this work, using a Nd$^{3+}$:YBO$_3$ random laser system operating in the nonresonant (diffusive) feedback regime,…

Anisotropic two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors recently have emerged as a promising platform for polarization-controlled Raman amplification. In this study, we probe energy-dependent resonant Raman scattering in few layer ReS2 under…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-22 Pritam Das , Devarshi Chakrabarty , Neha Gill , Sajal Dhara

We consider the role of a propagation effect such as the stimulated Raman scattering on the polarization of radio pulses. When an intense electromagnetic wave with frequency close to the plasma frequency interacts with the plasma in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. T. Gangadhara , H. Lesch , V. Krishan

New time-dependent integrals of motion are found for stimulated Raman scattering. Explicit formula for the photon-number probability distribution as a function of the laser-field intensity and the medium parameters is obtained in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Man'ko , N. V. Tcherniega

The derivation of Student's pdf from superstatistics is a mere coincidence due to the choice of the $\chi^2$ distribution for the inverse temperature which is actually the Maxwell distribution for the speed. The difference between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. H. Lavenda , J. Dunning-Davies

In this paper we provide a connection between the geometrical properties of a chaotic dynamical system and the distribution of extreme values. We show that the extremes of so-called physical observables are distributed according to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Valerio Lucarini , Tobias Kuna , Davide Faranda , Jeroen Wouters

Extreme value distributions are routinely employed to assess risks connected to extreme events in a large number of applications. They typically are two- or three- parameter distributions: the inference can be unstable, which is…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Nathan Huet , Ilaria Prosdocimi

Magnetic inelastic neutron scattering (INS) studies of iron-based superconductors reveal a strongly temperature-dependent spin-fluctuation spectrum in the normal conducting state, which develops a prominent low-energy resonance feature when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-28 Andreas Heimes , Roland Grein , Matthias Eschrig

Frequency-dependent brightness fluctuations of radio sources, the so-called extreme scattering events (ESEs), have been observed over the last three decades. They are caused by Galactic plasma structures whose geometry and origin are still…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Lingyi Dong , Maria Petropoulou , Dimitrios Giannios

We derive exact expressions for the finite-time statistics of extrema (maximum and minimum) of the spatial displacement and the fluctuating entropy flow of biased random walks. Our approach captures key features of extreme events in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-10 Alexandre Guillet , Édgar Roldán , Frank Jülicher

Extreme scattering events (ESEs) are observed as dramatic ($>50\%$) drops in flux density that occur over an extended period of weeks to months. Discrete plasma lensing structures are theorized to scatter the radio waves produced by distant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-19 Kelvin Au , Jason D. Fiege , Adam Rogers

Statistical properties of light produced in spontaneous Raman scattering on an ensemble of molecules indicate the quantum nature of this phenomenon. The scattered light is non-classical and has high non-classical intensity correlations…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-15 Ivan V. Panyukov , Evgeny S. Andrianov

We study Raman scattering in active media placed in proximity of different types of metal nanostructures, at wavelengths that display either Fabry-Perot or plasmonic resonances, or a combination of both. We use a semi-classical approach to…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Scalora , M. A. Vincenti , D. de Ceglia , M. Grande , J. W. Haus

We recall the physical features of the parton distributions in the quantum statistical approach of the nucleon, which allows to describe simultaneously, unpolarized and polarized Deep Inelastic Scattering data. Some predictions from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Jacques Soffer

The frequency of occurrence of prime numbers at unit number spacing intervals exhibits selfsimilar fractal fluctuations concomitant with inverse power law form for power spectrum generic to dynamical systems in nature such as fluid flows,…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-13 A. M. Selvam

Frequency power spectra due to a super-position of uncorrelated Lorentzian pulses with a random distribution of amplitudes are considered. For pulses with constant duration, there is an exponential frequency spectrum which is independent of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 O. E. Garcia , A. Theodorsen