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This paper focuses on phase retrieval from phaseless total-field data in biharmonic scattering problems. We prove that a phased biharmonic wave can be uniquely determined by the modulus of the total biharmonic wave within a nonempty domain.…

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We study frequency domain electromagnetic scattering at a bounded, penetrable, and inhomogeneous obstacle $ \Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3 $. From the Stratton-Chu integral representation, we derive a new representation formula when constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Ignacio Labarca-Figueroa , Ralf Hiptmair

In this paper, we consider the inverse shape problem of recovering small and extended isotropic scatterers with a conductive boundary condition. Here, we assume that the measured far-field data is known at a fixed wave number. We will…

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This paper is concerned with the thermoelastic obstacle scattering problem in three dimensions. A uniaxial perfectly matched layer (PML) method is firstly introduced to truncate the unbounded scattering problem, leading to a truncated PML…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Qianyuan Yin , Changkun Wei , Bo Zhang

It was proved that the joint operation of electromagnetic reciprocity and $n$-fold ($n\geq3$) rotational symmetry would secure arbitrary polarization-independent backscattering efficiency [Phys. Rev. B \textbf{103}, 045422 (2021)]. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-27 Chunchao Wen , Jianfa Zhang , Shiqiao Qin , Zhihong Zhu , Wei Liu

We present a computational framework for efficient optimization-based "inverse design" of large-area "metasurfaces" (subwavelength-patterned surfaces) for applications such as multi-wavelength and multi-angle optimizations, and…

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Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg

While the implementation of single particle coherent diffraction imaging for non-crystalline particles is complicated by current limitations in photon flux, hit rate, and sample delivery a concept of many-particle coherent diffraction…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-02-22 R. P. Kurta , R. Dronyak , M. Altarelli , E. Weckert , I. A. Vartanyants

We consider the unique determinations of impenetrable obstacles or diffraction grating profiles in $\mathbb{R}^3$ by a single far-field measurement within polyhedral geometries. We are particularly interested in the case that the scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Xinlin cao , Huaian Diao , Hongyu Liu , Jun Zou

A numerical method is developed for recovering both the source locations and the obstacle from the scattered Cauchy data of the time-harmonic acoustic field. First of all, the incident and scattered components are decomposed from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Deyue Zhang , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo

We consider the solvability of the direct scattering problem of an obliquely incident time-harmonic electromagnetic wave by a piecewise constant inhomogeneous, penetrable and infinitely long cylinder. We prove the existence and uniqueness…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-02-23 Drossos Gintides , Sotiris Giogiakas , Leonidas Mindrinos

This paper is concerned with uniqueness results in inverse acoustic and electromagnetic scattering problems with phaseless total-field data at a fixed frequency. Motivated by our previous work ({\em SIAM J. Appl. Math. \bf78} (2018),…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-13 Xiaoxu Xu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

A lesser-known but powerful application of parabolic equation methods is to the target scattering problem. In this paper, we use noncanonically shaped objects to establish the limits of applicability of the traditional approach, and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Adith Ramamurti , David C. Calvo

In this paper we consider the electromagnetic scattering problem by an obstacle characterised by a Generalized Impedance Boundary Condition in the harmonic regime. These boundary conditions are well known to provide accurate models for thin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Nicolas Chaulet

Achieving quantum-limited motional control of optically trapped particles beyond the sub-micrometer scale is an outstanding problem in levitated optomechanics. A key obstacle is solving the light scattering problem and identifying particle…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Moosung Lee , Benjamin A. Stickler , Thomas Pertsch , Sungkun Hong

A previous work, ref. 2 experimentally confirmed that measured special polarization characteristic features of a three-dimensional terahertz (THz) photonic-crystal did not apparently apply to general physical- and optical- basic rules. It…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-20 Chikara Sakurai

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem of a random potential associated with the polyharmonic wave equation in two and three dimensions. The random potential is represented as a centered complex-valued generalized microlocally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li , Xu Wang , Guanlin Yang

Let $c$ be a piecewise smooth wave speed on $\mathbb R^n$, unknown inside a domain $\Omega$. We are given the solution operator for the scalar wave equation $(\partial_t^2-c^2\Delta)u=0$, but only outside $\Omega$ and only for initial data…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-11 Peter Caday , Maarten V. de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson , Gunther Uhlmann