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The transfer matrix of scattering theory in one dimension can be expressed in terms of the time-evolution operator for an effective non-unitary quantum system. In particular, it admits a Dyson series expansion which turns out to facilitate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

We study the spectral stability of a 2D discrete Schr\"{o}dinger equation on a square lattice, in the simultaneous presence of a fractional Laplacian and $\cal{PT}$ symmetry. For that purpose, we compute the plane-wave spectrum in closed…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-16 Mario I. Molina

This work is dedicated to uniqueness and numerical algorithms for determining the point sources of the biharmonic wave equation using scattered fields at sparse sensors. We first show that the point sources in both $\mathbb{R}^2$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Xiaodong Liu , Qingxiang Shi , Jing Wang

Since the seminal work by H.L.F. Helmholtz in 1863, to understand the basic principles of hearing has been a great, but still unresolved, challenge for physicists. Some time ago, it has been pointed out (Egu\'{\i}luz et al., Phys. Rev.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Stoop , A. Kern

A scattering transform defines a signal representation which is invariant to translations and Lipschitz continuous relatively to deformations. It is implemented with a non-linear convolution network that iterates over wavelet and modulus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-12-07 Joan Bruna , Stéphane Mallat

The extended boundary condition method can be formulated to study plane-wave scattering by an ellipsoid composed of an orthorhombic dielectric-magnetic material whose relative permittivity dyadic is a scalar multiple of its relative…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-22 H. M. Alkhoori , A. Lakhtakia , J. K. Breakall , C. F. Bohren

Solving the wave equation is one of the most (if not the most) fundamental problems we face as we try to illuminate the Earth using recorded seismic data. The Helmholtz equation provides wavefield solutions that are dimensionally reduced,…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tariq Alkhalifah , Chao Song , Umair bin Waheed , Qi Hao

This paper provides an analysis of radio wave scattering for frequencies ranging from the microwave to the Terahertz band (e.g., 1 GHz - 1 THz), by studying the scattering power reradiated from various types of materials with different…

We investigate the dynamics of the perturbations of the inflaton scalar field oscillating around a minimum of its effective potential in an expanding universe. With the assumption of smallness of the ratio of the Hubble parameter to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-30 Vladimir A. Koutvitsky , Eugene M. Maslov

We study the inverse boundary value problem for the Helmholtz equation using the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map at selected frequencies as the data. A conditional Lipschitz stability estimate for the inverse problem holds in the case of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Elena Beretta , Maarten V. de Hoop , Florian Faucher , Otmar Scherzer

The work is devoted to Dirichlet problem for sub-quintic semi-linear wave equation with damping damping term of the form $(-\Delta)^\alpha\partial_t u$, $\alpha\in(0,\frac{1}{2})$, in bounded smooth domains of $\Bbb R^3$. It appears that to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-03-31 Anton Savostianov

The topographical scattering of gravity waves is investigated using a spectral energy balance equation that accounts for first order wave-bottom Bragg scattering. This model represents the bottom topography and surface waves with spectra,…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rudy Magne , Fabrice Ardhuin , Vincent Rey , Thomas H. C. Herbers

We study various properties of the gradients of solutions to harmonic functions on Lipschitz surfaces. We improve an exponential bound of Naber and Valtorta on the size of the superlevel sets for the frequency function to a sharp quadratic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Benjamin Foster

Motivated by applications to acoustic imaging, the present work establishes a framework to analyze scattering for the one-dimensional wave, Helmholtz, Schr\"odinger and Riccati equations that allows for coefficients which are more singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Peter C. Gibson

The scattering and transmission of harmonic acoustic waves at a penetrable material are commonly modelled by a set of Helmholtz equations. This system of partial differential equations can be rewritten into boundary integral equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Elwin van 't Wout , Seyyed R. Haqshenas , Pierre Gélat , Timo Betcke , Nader Saffari

We study monochromatic, scalar solutions of the Helmholtz and paraxial wave equations from a field-theoretic point of view. We introduce appropriate time-independent Lagrangian densities for which the Euler-Lagrange equations reproduces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Andrea Aiello

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating half-space in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an asymptotic analysis of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Adel Messaoudi , Regis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

Higgs Effective Field Theory (HEFT) is deployed to study elastic vector-boson scattering at the high LHC energies. The interaction is strong over most of the parameter space, with the minimal Standard Model being a remarkable exception.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-29 Antonio Dobado , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Alexandre Salas-Bernardez , Rafael L. Delgado

A robust and efficient field-only nonsingular surface integral method to solve Maxwell's equations for the components of the electric field on the surface of a dielectric scatterer is introduced. In this method, both the vector Helmholtz…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 Qiang Sun , Evert Klaseboer , Alex J. Yuffa , Derek Y. C. Chan

We consider the Helmholtz problem in the context of the evolution of uniform initial distribution of a physical attribute in general porous media subject to a partially absorbing boundary condition. Its spectral property as a reflection of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Seungoh Ryu , David Linton Johnson