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Development generating diffraction-related valuable expressions and formulas capable of initiating new era for diffraction and for scientific domains that use it provided. The main expression, among these, gives diffracted intensity as…
We study passive scalar mixing by parallel shear flows in the presence of weak molecular diffusion. We recover the sharp uniform-in-diffusivity mixing rate for shear flows with finitely many critical points, recently proven in [1]. Our…
Spectral density functions quantify how environmental modes couple to quantum systems and govern their open dynamics. Inferring such frequency-dependent functions from time-domain measurements is an ill-conditioned inverse problem. Here, we…