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We investigate elastic scattering by a compact, horizonless body in curved spacetime, considering a massless scalar wave incident on a static, spherically symmetric, uniform-density star of radius $R$ and mass $M$ with a Schwarzschild…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Mohamed Ould El Hadj

Inverse medium scattering is an ill-posed, nonlinear wave-based imaging problem arising in medical imaging, remote sensing, and non-destructive testing. Machine learning (ML) methods offer increased inference speed and flexibility in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Olivia Tsang , Owen Melia , Vasileios Charisopoulos , Jeremy Hoskins , Yuehaw Khoo , Rebecca Willett

We find a new set of exact solutions to Maxwell's equations in space--time varying materials, where the refractive index is constant, while the impedance exhibits effective motion, i.e. it is a function of $x-vt$. We find that waves…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Mingjie Li , S. A. R. Horsley

We present a theory for the cloaking of arbitrarily-shaped objects and demonstrate electromagnetic scattering-cancellation through designed homogeneous coatings. First, in the small-particle limit, we expand the dipole moment of a coated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-26 Carlo Forestiere , Luca Dal Negro , Giovanni Miano

Inverse scattering problems have many important applications. In this paper, given limited aperture data, we propose a Bayesian method for the inverse acoustic scattering to reconstruct the shape of an obstacle. The inverse problem is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Zhaoxiang Li , Zhiliang Deng , Jiguang Sun

Inverse scattering problem is discussed for the Maxwell's equations. A reduction of the Maxwell's system to a new Fredholm second-kind integral equation with a {\it scalar weakly singular kernel} is given for electromagnetic (EM) wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-27 A. G. Ramm

A numerical approach to the problem of wave scattering by many small particles is developed under the assumptions k<<1, d>>a, where a is the size of the particles and d is the distance between the neighboring particles. On the wavelength…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-06-18 M. I. Andriychuk , A. G. Ramm

The wave propagation in random medium plays a critical role in optics and quantum physics. Multiple scattering of coherent wave in a random medium determines the transport procedure. Brownian motions of the scatterers perturb each…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-25 Peng Miao , Yifan Zhang , Cheng Wang , Shanbao Tong

The motion of self-propelled particles can be rectified by asymmetric or ratchet-like periodic patterns in space. Here we show that a non-zero average drift can already be induced in a periodic potential with symmetric barriers when the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Andrey Pototsky , Aljoscha M. Hahn , Holger Stark

Principal contributions to QED radiative effects for Moller scattering of polarized particles are investigated both on the Born level and taking into account radiative corrections (RC). Scattering on the case of longitudinal and transversal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Shumeiko , J. G. Suarez

We show that the use of wavelet bases for solving the momentum-space scattering integral equation leads to sparse matrices which can simplify the solution. Wavelet bases are applied to calculate the K-matrix for nucleon-nucleon scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 B. M. Kessler , G. L. Payne , W. N. Polyzou

Geometrically decorated two-dimensional (2D) discrete surfaces can be more effective than conventional smooth reflectors in managing wave radiation. Constructive non-specular wave scattering permits the scattering angle to be other than…

The atmospheres of planets (including Earth) and the outer layers of stars have often been treated in radiative transfer as plane-parallel media, instead of spherical shells, which can lead to inaccuracy, e.g. limb darkening. We give an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael J. Caola

This paper analyzes inverse scattering for the one-dimensional Helmholtz equation in the case where the wave speed is piecewise constant. Scattering data recorded for an arbitrarily small interval of frequencies is shown to determine the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Sophia Bugarija , Peter C. Gibson , Guanghui Hu , Peijun Li , Yue Zhao

The model--independent QED radiative corrections to polarization observables in elastic scattering of unpolarized and longitudinally--polarized electron beam by the deuteron target have been calculated in leptonic variables. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 G. I. Gakh , M. I. Konchatnij , N. P. Merenkov

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing inhomogeneities by performing a finite number of scattering measurements of acoustic type in the time-harmonic setting. We set up the reconstruction as a fully discrete variational problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Daniela Di Donato , Luca Rondi

We investigate ways of accurately simulating the propagation of energetic charged particles over small times where the standard Monte Carlo approximation to diffusive transport breaks down. We find that a small-angle scattering procedure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. J. Protheroe , A. Meli , A. -C Donea

A set of travelling wave solutions to a hyperbolic generalization of the convection-reaction-diffusion is studied by the methods of local nonlinear alnalysis and numerical simulation. Special attention is paid to displaying appearance of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-17 Vsevolod Vladimirov

Scattering properties of a material are changed when the material is injected with small acoustically soft particles. It is shown that its new scattering behavior can be understood as a solution of a potential scattering problem with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm , S. Gutman