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Theory was formulated for scattering by a coated chiral sphere of a plane wave of arbitrary polarization state with amplitude modulated by a Gaussian pulse. The spherical core and the concentric shell of the sphere were composed of two…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-24 Hector M. Iga-Buitron , Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

We study the ultraviolet properties of theories whose fundamental fields display a confining, Gribov-type, propagator. These are propagators that exhibit complex poles and violate positivity, thus precluding a physical propagating particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 M. A. L. Capri , M. S. Guimaraes , I. Justo , L. F. Palhares , S. P. Sorella

Systems of identical particles with equal charge are studied under a special type of confinement. These classical particles are free to move inside some convex region S and on the boundary of it $\Omega$ (the $S^{d-1}-$ sphere, in our…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 J. Batle

Uniformly distributed point sets on the unit sphere with and without symmetry constraints have been found useful in many scientific and engineering applications. Here, a novel variant of the Thomson problem is proposed and formulated as an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-08-15 Cheng Guan Koay

The full solution of the optimization problem giving the Gaussian capacity of the single-mode fiducial Gaussian quantum channel is provided. Since it was shown that the Gaussian capacity of an arbitrary (phase-sensitive or insensitive)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-19 Joachim Schäfer , Evgueni Karpov , Oleg V. Pilyavets , Nicolas J. Cerf

Maximal sets of mutually unbiased bases are useful throughout quantum physics, both in a foundational context and for applications. To date, it remains unknown if complete sets of mutually unbiased bases exist in Hilbert spaces of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Daniel McNulty , Stefan Weigert

Two algorithms are proposed to simulate space-time Gaussian random fields with a covariance function belonging to an extended Gneiting class, the definition of which depends on a completely monotone function associated with the spatial…

Computation · Statistics 2019-12-05 Denis Allard , Xavier Emery , Céline Lacaux , Christian Lantuéjoul

We derive an exact analytical solution to the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for transmission of a Gaussian wave packet through an arbitrary potential of finite range. We consider the situation where the initial Gaussian wave packet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 Sergio Cordero , Gaston Garcia-Calderon

Zernike polynomials are widely used mathematical models of experimentally observed optical aberrations. Their useful mathematical properties, in particular their orthogonality, make them a ubiquitous basis set for solving various problems…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-28 Jakub Czuchnowski , Robert Prevedel

The basic methods of constructing the sets of mutually unbiased bases in the Hilbert space of an arbitrary finite dimension are discussed and an emerging link between them is outlined. It is shown that these methods employ a wide range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michel R. P. Planat , Haret Rosu , Serge Perrine , Metod Saniga

This paper introduces an innovative approach for representing Gaussian fermionic states, pivotal in quantum spin systems and fermionic models, within a range of alternative quantum bases. We focus on transitioning these states from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-24 Babak Tarighi , Reyhaneh Khasseh , M. A. Rajabpour

A modified Kaluza-Klein theory is proposed in which propagation takes place only at the speed of light. The propagation can be confined to a small volume, forming a particle with rest mass. The usual four space-time coordinates locate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Donald E. Jennings

Limited-diffraction beams are a class of waves that may be localized in space and time. Theoretically, these beams are propagation invariant and can propagate to an infinite distance without spreading. In practice, when these beams are…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Jian-yu Lu

Gaussian beams exist along all closed geodesics of a Zoll surface, despite the fact that the algorithm for constructing them assumes that the closed geodesics are non-degenerate. Similarly, there exists a global Birkhoff normal for a Zoll…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2014-04-11 Steve Zelditch

Bayesian nonparametric space partition (BNSP) models provide a variety of strategies for partitioning a $D$-dimensional space into a set of blocks. In this way, the data points lie in the same block would share certain kinds of homogeneity.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-02 Xuhui Fan , Bin Li , Ling Luo , Scott A. Sisson

Optimizing an implicational base of a closure system consists in turning this implicational base into an equivalent one with premises and conclusions as small as possible. This task is known to be hard in general but tractable for a number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Anthony Meunier , Lhouari Nourine , Simon Vilmin

We investigate inequalities for partial sums of complex numbers with bounded modulus and zero total sum, a topic referred to as "polygonal confinement". Starting from Steinitz's classical result, we provide detailed constructions yielding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Jean-Christophe Pain

Spatially accelerating beams that are solutions to the Maxwell equations may propagate along incomplete circular trajectories, after which diffraction broadening takes over and the beams spread out. Taking these truncated Bessel wave fields…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Carlos J. Zapata-Rodriguez , Mahin Naserpour

A class of complete potential-density basis sets in cylindrical (R,phi,z) coordinates is presented. This class is suitable for stability studies of galactic disks in three dimensions and includes basis sets tailored for disks with vertical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David J. D. Earn

We study the gauge-invariant gaussian ansatz for the vacuum wave functional and show that it potentially possesses many desirable features of the Yang--Mills theory, like asymptotic freedom, mass generation through the transmutation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Dmitri Diakonov