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We develop a new computational tool and framework for characterizing the scattering of photons by energy-nonconserving Hamiltonians into unidirectional (chiral) waveguides, for example, with coherent pulsed excitation. The temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Kevin A. Fischer , Rahul Trivedi , Vinay Ramasesh , Irfan Siddiqi , Jelena Vučković

Measurements of seismic wave travel times at the photosphere of the Sun have enabled inferences of its interior structure and dynamics. In interpreting these measurements, the simplifying assumption that waves propagate through a temporally…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Shravan Hanasoge , Laurent Gizon , Guillaume Bal

We consider the solution of a scalar Helmholtz equation where the potential (or index) takes two positive values, one inside a ball of radius $\eps$ and another one outside. In this short paper, we report that the results recently obtained…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Yves Capdeboscq , George Leadbetter , Andrew Parker

In this paper, we consider the scattering theory for acoustic-type equations on non-compact manifolds with a single flat end. Our main purpose is to show an existence result of non-scattering energies. Precisely, we show a Weyl-type lower…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Hisashi Morioka , Naotaka Shoji

These notes contain a rapid overview of the methods and results obtained in the field of propagation of waves in disordered media. The case of Schr\"odinger and Helmholtz equations are considered that describe respectively electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Akkermans , G. Montambaux

We consider the solution of a scalar Helmholtz equation where the potential (or index) takes two positive values, one inside a disk of radius $\epsilon$ and another one outside. We derive sharp estimates of the size of the scattered field…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Yves Capdeboscq

This paper is concerned with a numerical method for a 3D coefficient inverse problem with phaseless scattering data. These are multi-frequency data generated by a single direction of the incident plane wave. Our numerical procedure consists…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-16 Michael V. Klibanov , Dinh-Liem Nguyen , Loc H. Nguyen

We report experimental and theoretical investigations of coherent perfect channeling (CPC), a process that two incoming coherent waves in waveguides are completely channeled into one or two other waveguides with little energy dissipation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Xiaonan Zhang , Chong Meng , Z. Yang

Stationary scattering of TE and TM waves propagating in an isotropic medium with planar symmetry is described by Bergmann's equation in one dimension. This is a generalization of Helmholtz equation which allows for developing transfer…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-21 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh , Cem Yetişmişoğlu

Effective medium theory aims to describe a complex inhomogeneous material in terms of a few important macroscopic parameters. To characterise wave propagation through an inhomogeneous material, the most crucial parameter is the effective…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Artur Lewis Gower , Ian David Abrahams , William J. Parnell

To describe the energy transport in the seismic coda, we introduce a system of radiative transfer equations for coupled surface and body waves in a scalar approximation. Our model is based on the Helmholtz equation in a half-space geometry…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Ludovic Margerin , Andres Bajaras , Michel Campillo

We present a boundary integral formulation of electromagnetic scattering by homogeneous bodies that are characterized by linear constitutive equations in the frequency domain. By working with the Cartesian components of the electric, E and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Qiang Sun , Evert Klaseboer , Derek Y. C. Chan

Scattering by (a) a single composite scatterer consisting of a concentric arrangement of an outer N-slit rigid cylinder and an inner cylinder which is either rigid or in the form of a thin elastic shell and (b) by a finite periodic array of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-11 Anton Krynkin , Olga Umnova , Alvin Y. B. Chong , Shahram Taherzadeh , Keith Attenborough

The scattering of quasiperiodic waves for a two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with a constant refractive index perturbed by a function which is periodic in one direction and of finite support in the other is considered. The scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. de la Paz Méndez

The article discusses the correctness of the assumption about the similarity of molecular continuum electron functions with wave functions in electron-atom scattering. The elastic scattering of slow particles by pair of non-overlapping…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-01 A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

A natural medium for wave propagation comprises a coupled bounded heterogeneous region and an unbounded homogeneous free-space. Frequency-domain wave propagation models in the medium, such as the variable coefficient Helmholtz equation,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Victor Dominguez , Mahadevan Ganesh , Francisco-Javier Sayas

Hawking radiation has become experimentally testable thanks to the many analogue systems which mimic the effects of the event horizon on wave propagation. These systems are typically dominated by dispersion, and give rise to a numerically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Scott Robertson , Ulf Leonhardt

The presence of a scattering medium in the imaging path between an object and an observer is known to severely limit the visual acuity of the imaging system. We present an approach to circumvent the deleterious effects of scattering, by…

This article is on the simultaneous diffusion approximation and homogenization of the linear Boltzmann equation when both the mean free path $\varepsilon$ and the heterogeneity length scale $\eta$ vanish. No periodicity assumption is made…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Claude Bardos , Harsha Hutridurga

This paper considers the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic and electromagnetic plane waves by a bounded, inhomogeneous, penetrable obstacle with embedded objects inside. A new method is proposed to prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-14 Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang