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Time reversal methods are widely used to achieve wave focusing in acoustics and electromagnetics. A typical time reversal experiment requires that a transmitter be initially present at the target focusing point, which limits the application…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-11 Bo Xiao , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

Time-reflection occurs when a wave is propagating in a medium undergoing a large and abrupt change in its properties: the original wave splits into a time-refracted wave and a time-reflected wave, each displaying different features. The…

This paper presents a novel approach for steering the state of a stochastic control-affine system to a desired target within a finite time horizon. Our method leverages the time-reversal of diffusion processes to construct the required…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Yuhang Mei , Amirhossein Taghvaei , Ali Pakniyat

Time reversal symmetry is studied in a space with noncommutativity of coordinates and noncommutativity of momenta of canonical type. The circular motion is examined as an apparent example of time reversal symmetry breaking in the space. On…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Kh. P. Gnatenko , M. I. Samar , V. M. Tkachuk

Spatiotemporally modulated elastic metamaterials have garnered increasing interest for their potential applications in nonreciprocal wave devices. Most existing studies, however, focus on systems where spatiotemporal modulation is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Yingrui Ye , Chunxia Liu , Alessandro Marzani , Emanuele Riva , Antonio Palermo , Xiaopeng Wang

Theoretical and computational study of reflection and refraction of electromagnetic waves with $p$-polarized and normal incidence electric wave amplitude vector on anisotropic, inhomogeneous and linear medium has been done. The medium used…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-09 Andri S. Husein , Roniyus MS , Sri W. Suciyati

Time-reversal symmetry allows waves to retrace their paths through complex media and refocus at their origin. However, incomplete capture and reversal of scattered waves often limits pulse recompression. We address this challenge for…

Recently, nonreciprocal phase shifters have attracted a surge of interest thanks to the advent of nonreciprocal electromagnetic systems, such as nonreciprocal metasurfaces, nonreciprocal-beam antennas, and invisibility cloaks. To overcome…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Both metaphysical and practical considerations related to time inversion have intrigued scientists for generations. Physicists have strived to devise and implement time-inversion protocols, in particular different forms of "time mirrors"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-10 Phillipp Reck , Cosimo Gorini , Arseni Goussev , Viktor Krueckl , Mathias Fink , Klaus Richter

The reversion of the time evolution of a quantum state can be achieved by changing the sign of the Hamiltonian as in the polarization echo experiment in NMR. In this work we describe an alternative mechanism inspired by the acoustic time…

We analyze the refocusing properties of time reversed waves that propagate in two different media during the forward and backward stages of a time-reversal experiment. We consider two regimes of wave propagation modeled by the paraxial wave…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Bal , Lenya Ryzhik

A dynamical system is said to be reversible if, given an output, the input can always be recovered in a well-posed manner. Nevertheless, we argue that reversible systems that have a time-reversal symmetry, such as the Nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Amir Sagiv , Adi Ditkowski , Roy H. Goodman , Gadi Fibich

Wave reflection and refraction at a time interface follow different conservation laws compared to conventional scattering at a spatial interface. This study presents the experimental demonstration of refraction and reflection of flexural…

Time reversal in quantum or classical systems described by an Hermitian Hamiltonian is a physically allowed process, which requires in principle inverting the sign of the Hamiltonian. Here we consider the problem of time reversal of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Stefano Longhi

Modern, high-fidelity numerical simulations have shown an apparently anomalous result: a longitudinal elastodynamic wave travelling perpendicular to the forcing direction. Numerical simulations, in combination with an analytical model, are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Peter Huthwaite

We are concerned with the reconstruction of inclusions in elastic bodies based on measurements from a laboratory experiment. In doing so, we solve the inverse problem of the time-harmonic elastic wave equation, in contrast to the stationary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Sarah Eberle-Blick , Jochen Moll

Time reversal (TR) focusing of ultrasound in granular packings is experimentally investigated. Pulsed elastic waves transmitted from a compressional or shear transducer source are measured by a TR mirror, reversed in time and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-18 Maxime Harazi , Yougu Yang , Mathias Fink , Arnaud Tourin , Xiaoping Jia

Coherent control of wave transmission and reflection is crucial for applications in communication, imaging, and sensing. However, many practical scenarios involve partially coherent waves rather than fully coherent ones. We present a…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-13 Cheng Guo , Shanhui Fan

We study the nonlinear wave dynamics of one-dimensional chains of polycatenated rings. These interlocked structures support amplitude-dependent nonlinear wave propagation driven by tensile activation and internal structural flexibility,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Xiaoxiao Xiong , Reo Yanagi , Tingtao Zhou , Chiara Daraio

We consider classical response in a strongly chaotic (mixing) system. As opposed to the case of stable dynamics, the nonlinear classical response in a chaotic system vanishes at large times. The physical behavior of the nonlinear response…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey V. Malinin , Vladimir Y. Chernyak