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The gamma-ray burst's lightcurves have been analyzed using a special wavelet transformation. The applied wavelet base is based on a typical Fast Rise-Exponential Decay (FRED) pulse. The shape of the wavelet coefficients' total distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Z. Bagoly , I. Horvath , A. Meszaros , L. G. Balazs

This work concerns the asymptotic analysis of high-frequency wave propagation in randomly layered media with fast variations and long-range correlations. The analysis takes place in the 3D physical space and weak-coupling regime. The role…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Christophe Gomez

Pulse propagation is studied in an EIT medium with the control field having a periodically varying phase (chirp). Based both on numerical calculations and on an approximate approach neglecting absorption and nonadiabatic effects, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Andrzej Raczynski , Jaroslaw Zaremba , Sylwia Zielinska-Raczynska

If $\gamma$-ray bursts are at cosmological distances, then not only their constituent pulses but also the intervals between pulses should be time-dilated. Unlike time-dilation measures of pulse emission, intervals would appear to require…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. P. Norris , J. T. Bonnell , R. J. Nemiroff , J. D. Scargle

A novel time domain solver of Maxwell's equations in passive (dispersive and absorbing) media is proposed. The method is based on the path integral formalism of quantum theory and entails the use of ({\it i}) the Hamiltonian formalism and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Sergei V. Shabanov

The dispersion measures of fast radio bursts have been identified as a powerful tool for testing the zero-mass hypothesis of the photon. The classical approach treats the massive photon-induced and plasma-induced time delays as two separate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 Bao Wang , Jun-Jie Wei

An electromagnetic truncated Gaussian pulse propagates through a waveguide with piecewise different dielectric constants. The waveguide contains a barrier, namely a region of a lower dielectric constant compared to the neighboring regions.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Thorsten Emig

We show experimentally that a continuous, linear, dielectric antenna in which a superluminal polarization-current distribution accelerates can be used to transmit a broadband signal that is reproduced in a comprehensible form at a chosen…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 John Singleton , Andrea C. Schmidt , Connor Bailey , James Wigger , Frank L. Krawczyk

We develop a time domain random walk approach for conservative solute transport in heterogeneous media where medium properties vary over a distribution of length scales. The spatial transition lengths are equal to the heterogeneity length…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-05 Tomás Aquino , Marco Dentz

In this paper we analyze a time-reversal experiment in a random underwater acoustic channel. In this kind of waveguide with semi-infinite cross section a propagating field can be decomposed over three kinds of modes: the propagating modes,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-01-26 Christophe Gomez

The brightest events in a time series of cosmological transients obey an observation time dependence which is often overlooked. This dependence can be exploited to probe the global properties of electromagnetic and gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 E. Howell , D. Coward , R. Burman , D. Blair

We analyze the propagation of an incident electromagnetic wave in a purely-time modulated medium. Precisely, we assume that the permeability is unchanged while the permittivity has a multiple-step profile in time and uniformly constant in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Mourad Sini , Haibing Wang , Qingyun Yao

We demonstrate that the diffusion coefficient, $D$, for ultrasound propagating in a multiple scattering medium, such as a dense granular suspension, can be measured using a time reversal experiment. This requires an unprecedented…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-27 Y. Abraham , B. A. van Tiggelen , N. Benech , C. Negreira , X. Jia , A. Tourin

We study the traversal times of electromagnetic pulses across dispersive media with negative dielectric permittivity ($\varepsilon$) and magnetic permeability ($\mu$) parameters. First we investigate the transport of optical pulses through…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-12-08 Lipsa Nanda , S. Anantha Ramakrishna

Although negative-refractive-index metamaterials have successfully achieved subwavelength focusing, image resolution is limited by the presence of losses. In this Letter, a metal transmission screen with subwavelength spaced slots is…

Optics · Physics 2008-09-25 Loic Markley , Alex M. H. Wong , Yan Wang , George V. Eleftheriades

We investigate the spatio-temporal evolution of a Gaussian probe pulse propagating through a four-level $N$-type atomic medium. At two-photon resonance of probe-and control fields, weaker probe pulses may propagate through the medium with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Rajitha K. V. , Tarak N. Dey , Jörg Evers , Martin Kiffner

A pulse of matter waves may dramatically change its shape when traversing an absorbing barrier with time-dependent transparency. Here we show that this effect can be utilized for controlled manipulation of spatially-localized quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 Arseni Goussev

Maxwell's equations are cast in the form of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation. The Lanczos propagation method is used in combination with the fast Fourier pseudospectral method to solve the initial value problem. As a result, a time-domain,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei G. Borisov , Sergei V. Shabanov

The time evolution of a bounded quantum system is considered in the framework of the orthogonal, unitary and symplectic circular ensembles of random matrix theory. For an $N$ dimensional Hilbert space we prove that in the large $N$ limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 P. Leboeuf , G. Iacomelli

Scattering of femtosecond laser pulses on resonant transmission and reflection gratings made of dispersive (Drude metals) and dielectric materials is studied by a time-domain numerical algorithm for Maxwell's theory of linear passive…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrei G. Borisov , Sergei V. Shabanov