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Diffraction tomography is a widely used inverse scattering technique for quantitative imaging of weakly scattering media. In its conventional formulation, diffraction tomography assumes monochromatic plane wave illumination. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Peter Elbau , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

We introduce the longitudinal and transverse static surface modes and use them to solve the full-wave electromagnetic scattering problem from penetrable objects. The longitudinal static modes are the eigenmodes with zero surface curl of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Carlo Forestiere , Giovanni Gravina , Giovanni Miano , Guglielmo Rubinacci , Antonello Tamburrino

We develop a unified scattering approach to dynamical Casimir problems which can be applied to both accelerating boundaries, as well as dispersive objects in relative motion. A general (trace) formula is derived for the radiation from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Ramin Golestanian , Mehran Kardar

A 3-D inverse medium problem in the frequency domain is considered. Another name for this problem is Coefficient Inverse Problem. The goal is to reconstruct spatially distributed dielectric constants from scattering data. Potential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-23 Michael V. Klibanov , Hui Liu , Loc H. Nguyen

In pseudo integrable systems diffractive scattering caused by wedges and impurities can be described within the framework of Geometric Theory of Diffraction (GDT) in a way similar to the one used in the Periodic Orbit Theory of Diffraction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 G. Vattay , J. Cserti , G. Palla , G. Szálka

This paper presents a second-kind surface integral equation method for the numerical solution of frequency-domain electromagnetic scattering problems by locally perturbed layered media in three spatial dimensions. Unlike standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-10 Rodrigo Arrieta , Carlos Pérez-Arancibia

We consider the numerical solution of high-frequency scattering problems modeled by the Helmholtz equation with a bounded obstacle. Although the analysis of this problem dates back at least 50 years, over the past decade or so, tools and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

The interaction of a wave packet (and in particular the wave front) with a mass barrier is investigated in one dimension. We discuss the main features of the wave packet that are inherent to two-dimensional wave packets, such as compression…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-08 A. Matulis , M. Ramezani Masir , F. M. Peeters

In this paper, scattering of incident plane waves from rough surfaces have been modeled in a fractional space. It is shown how wave scattering from a rough surface, could be a simple reflection problem in a fractional space. In the integer…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-31 H. Safdari , M. Vahabi , G. R. Jafari

Two-dimensional problem of evanescent wave scattering by dielectric or metallic cylinders near the interface between two dielectric media is solved numerically by boundary integral equations method. A special Green function was proposed to…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-17 O. V. Belai , L. L. Frumin , S. V. Perminov , D. A. Shapiro

Recent research in light scattering has prompted a re-evaluation of complex quantities, particularly in the context of complex frequency signals, which exhibit exponential growth or decay unlike traditional harmonic signals. We introduce a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Deepanshu Trivedi , Arjuna Madanayake , Alex Krasnok

In [1], we inaugurated a new area of optimal control (OC) theory that we called "periodic fractional OC theory," which was developed to find optimal ways to periodically control a fractional dynamic system. The typical mathematical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Kareem T. Elgindy

It has been known for a long time that vacuum polarization in QED leads to a superluminal low-frequency phase velocity for light propagating in curved spacetime. Assuming the validity of the Kramers-Kronig dispersion relation, this would…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Timothy J. Hollowood , Graham M. Shore

Fourier optics, the principle of using Fourier Transformation to understand the functionalities of optical elements, lies at the heart of modern optics, and has been widely applied to optical information processing, imaging, holography etc.…

Consider time-harmonic acoustic scattering from a bounded penetrable obstacle $D\subset \mathbb R^N$ embedded in a homogeneous background medium. The index of refraction characterizing the material inside $D$ is supposed to be H\"older…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Guanghui Hu , Mikko Salo , Esa V. Vesalainen

We study the entanglement spectrum (ES) of two-dimensional $C_{n}$-symmetric second-order topological insulators (TIs). We show that some characteristic higher order topological observables, e.g., the filling anomaly and its associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-23 Penghao Zhu , Kieran Loehr , Taylor L. Hughes

The backscattering of circularly polarized light at normal incidence to a half-space of scattering particles is studied using the Electric Field Monte Carlo (EMC) method. The spatial distribution of the backscattered light intensity is…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kevin G. Phillips , Min Xu , S. K. Gayen , R. R. Alfano

We study the coherent propagation and incoherent diffusion of in-plane elastic waves in a two dimensional continuum populated by many, randomly placed and oriented, edge dislocations. Because of the Peierls-Nabarro force the dislocations…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-02 Dmitry Churochkin , Fernando Lund

Three problems for a discrete analogue of the Helmholtz equation are studied analytically using the plane wave decomposition and the Sommerfeld integral approach. They are: 1) the problem with a point source on an entire plane; 2) the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-15 A. V. Shanin , A. I. Korolkov

We investigate hard radiation emission in small-angle transplanckian scattering. We show how to reduce this problem to a quantum field theory computation in a classical background (gravitational shock wave). In momentum space, the formalism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-30 Paolo Lodone , Slava Rychkov