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The difficulty in frequency domain identification is that frequency components of arbitrary inputs and outputs are not related by the system's transfer function if signals are windowed. When rectangular windows are used, it is well known…

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Universal conductance fluctuations are usually observed in the form of aperiodic oscillations in the magnetoresistance of thin wires as a function of the magnetic field B. If such oscillations are completely random at scales exceeding…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-12-28 I. M. Suslov

The uncertainty principle is one of the fundamental tools for time-frequency analysis in signal processing, revealing the intrinsic trade-off between time and frequency resolutions. With the continuous development of various advanced…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Jia-Yin Peng , Bing-Zhao Li

An uncertainty inequality is presented that establishes a lower limit for the product of the variance of the time-averaged intensity of a mode of a quantized electromagnetic field and the degree of its spatial localization. The lower limit…

This paper introduces a couple of new time-frequency transforms, designed to adapt their scale to specific features of the analyzed function. Such an adaptation is implemented via so-called focus functions, which control the window scale as…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Pierre Warion , Bruno Torrésani

In this paper, the uncertainty principle of discrete signals associated with Quaternion Fourier transform is investigated. It suggests how sparsity helps in the recovery of missing frequency.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Yan Yang , Kit Ian Kou , Cuiming Zou

Windowing a Fourier transform is a useful tool, which gives us the similarity between the signal and time frequency signal, and it allows to get sense when/where ceratin frequencies occur in the input signal, this method is introduced by…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Mohammed El Kassimi , Mustapha Boujeddaine , Said Fahlaoui

The properties of the Gabor and Morlet transforms are examined with respect to the Fourier analysis of discretely sampled data. Forward and inverse transform pairs based on a fixed window with uniform sampling of the frequency axis can…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-07-23 Robert W. Johnson

Willems' fundamental lemma enables data-driven analysis and control by characterizing an unknown system's behavior directly in terms of measured data. In this work, we extend a recent frequency-domain variant of this result--previously…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-10 T. J. Meijer , M. Wind , V. S. Dolk , W. P. M. H. Heemels

In this paper, we study a few versions of the uncertainty principle for the short-time Fourier transform on the lattice $\mathbb Z^n \times \mathbb T^n$. In particular, we establish the uncertainty principle for orthonormal sequences,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Anirudha Poria , Aparajita Dasgupta

A Python package for the calculation of spectrograms with optimized time and frequency resolution for application in the analysis of numerical simulations on ultrashort pulse propagation is presented. Gabor's uncertainty principle prevents…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 O. Melchert , B. Roth , U. Morgner , A. Demircan

We study a class of high-frequency path functionals for diffusions with singular thresholds or boundaries, where the process exhibits either (i) skweness, oscillating coefficients, and stickiness, or (ii) sticky reflection. The functionals…

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In this paper we investigate new results on the theory of superoscillations using time-frequency analysis tools and techniques such as the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and the Zak transform. We start by studying how the short-time…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Daniel Alpay , Antonino De Martino , Kamal Diki , Daniele C. Struppa

Quantum phase transitions are often embodied by the critical behavior of purely quantum quantities such as entanglement or quantum fluctuations. In critical regions, we underline a general scaling relation between the entanglement entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-08 Pierre Nataf , Mehmet Dogan , Karyn Le Hur

The classical Fourier analysis of a time signal, in the discrete sense, provides the frequency content of signal under the assumption of periodicity. Although the original signal can be exactly recovered using an inverse transform, the time…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Vilas J. Shinde

Oscillatory processes are central for the understanding of the neural bases of cognition and behaviour. To analyse these processes, time-frequency (TF) decomposition methods are applied and non-parametric cluster-based statistical procedure…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-30 Christian Beste , Daniel Kaping , Tzvetomir Tzvetanov

Metaplectic Wigner distributions are joint time-frequency representations that are parametrized by a symplectic matrix and generalize the short-time Fourier transform and the Wigner distribution. We investigate the question which…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Karlheinz Gröchenig , Irina Shafkulovska

Motivated by the Generalized Uncertainty Principle, covariance, and a minimum measurable time, we propose a deformation of the Heisenberg algebra and show that this leads to corrections to all quantum mechanical systems. We also demonstrate…

General Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Mir Faizal , Mohammed M. Khalil , Saurya Das

The changes in brightness of an astronomical source as a function of time are key probes into that source's physics. Periodic and quasi-periodic signals are indicators of fundamental time (and length) scales in the system, while stochastic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-08 Matteo Bachetti , Daniela Huppenkothen

In many applications, from sensor to social networks, gene regulatory networks or big data, observations can be represented as a signal defined over the vertices of a graph. Building on the recently introduced Graph Fourier Transform, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Mikhail Tsitsvero , Sergio Barbarossa , Paolo Di Lorenzo