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Passive imaging is a new technics which has been proved to be very efficient, for example in seismology: the correlation of the noisy fields between different points is strongly related to the Green function of the wave propagation. The aim…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yves Colin de Verdiere

This work considers a time domain inverse acoustic obstacle scattering problem due to passive data. Motivated by the Helmholtz-Kirchhoff identity in the frequency domain, we propose to relate the time domain measurement data in passive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Xiaoli Liu , Shixu Meng , Jialu Tian , Bo Zhang

The methods of time-reversed acoustics and Green's function retrieval are traditionally deployed for classical inhomogeneous, time-invariant materials. The mutual relation between these methods is well-established. Recently, similar methods…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kees Wapenaar , Johannes Aichele , Dirk-Jan van Manen

Quantum channels in free-space, an essential prerequisite for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum technologies in open space, have so far been based on direct line-of-sight because the predominant approaches for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Shihan Sajeed , Thomas Jennewein

In this paper, we establish new results for the uniform far-field asymptotics of the two-layered Green function (together with its derivatives) in 2D in the frequency domain. To the best of our knowledge, our results are the sharpest yet…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Long Li , Jiansheng Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

The two-point complex coherence function constitutes a complete representation for scalar quasi-monochromatic optical fields. Exploiting dynamically reconfigurable slits implemented with a digital micromirror device, we report on…

Layered media have been studied extensively both for their importance in imaging technologies and as an example of a hyperbolic PDE with discontinuous coefficients. From the perspective of acoustic imaging, the time limited impulse response…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-22 Peter C. Gibson

A new type of an optical interferometer is discussed the phase difference between the interfering beams in which is substantially wavelength dependent. It is shown that the function measured with this device is an integral transform of the…

Optics · Physics 2012-06-29 M. V. Lebedev

We obtain an exact, closed-form expression for the time-dependent Green's function solution to the Kompaneets equation. The result, which is expressed as the integral of a product of two Whittaker functions, describes the evolution in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter A. Becker

A Green's function in an acoustic medium can be retrieved from reflection data by solving a multidimensional Marchenko equation. This procedure requires a-priori knowledge of the initial focusing function, which can be interpreted as the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Joost van der Neut , Joeri Brackenhoff , Giovanni Meles , Lele Zhang , Evert Slob , Kees Wapenaar

The pointwise space-time behavior of the Green's function of the three-dimensional modified Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann system is studied in this paper. It is shown that the Green's function has a decomposition of the macroscopic diffusive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Yanchao Li , Luobin Qiu , Mingying Zhong

We discuss theoretical approaches to nonlinear optical spectroscopy of molecular junctions. Optical response functions are derived in the form convenient for implementation of Green function techniques, and their expressions in terms of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Yi Gao , Michael Galperin

Starting with the Green's functions found for normal diffusion, we construct exact time-dependent Green's functions for subdiffusive equation (with fractional time derivatives), with the boundary conditions involving a linear combination of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tadeusz Kosztolowicz

We consider the Green's functions associated to a scalar field propagating on a curved, ultra-static background, in the presence of modified dispersion relations. The usual proper-time deWitt-Schwinger procedure to obtain a series…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Massimiliano Rinaldi

We show that Green function methods can be straightforwardly applied to nonlinear equations appearing as the leading order of a short time expansion. Higher order corrections can be then computed giving a satisfactory agreement with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Frasca

In this article we derive the lattice Green Functions (GFs) of graphene using a Tight Binding Hamiltonian incorporating both first and second nearest neighbour hoppings and allowing for a non-orthogonal electron wavefunction overlap. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 James A. Lawlor , Mauro S. Ferreira

In this article we derive the average and the variance of the cross-correlation of a noise wavefield. The noise cross-correlation function (NCF) is widely used to passively estimate the Green's function between two probes and is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-17 Julien de Rosny , Matthieu Davy

A domain integral method employing a specific Green's function (i.e., incorporating some features of the global problem of wave propagation in an inhomogeneous medium) is developed for solving direct and inverse scattering problems relative…

The problem of an electromagnetic wave scattered from a random medium layer with rough boundaries is formulated using integral equations which involve two kinds of Green functions. The first one describes the wave scattered by the random…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Soubret , G. Berginc

In absence of a lens to form an image, incoherent or partially coherent light scattering off an obstructive or reflective object forms a broad intensity distribution in the far field with only feeble spatial features. We show here that…