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Radio waves undergo scattering by small-scale density fluctuations during propagation through the solar-terrestrial environment, substantially affecting the observed characteristics of solar radio bursts. This scattering process can be…

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We consider the scattering theory for the defocusing energy subcritical wave equations with an inverse square potential. By employing the energy flux method we establish energy flux estimates on the light cone. Then by the characteristic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Changxing Miao , Ruipeng Shen , Tengfei Zhao

A general expression for the optical theorem for probe sources given in terms of propagation invariant beams is derived. This expression is obtained using the far field approximation for Rayleigh regime. In order to illustrate this results…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-27 Irving Rondon , Jooyoung Lee

At present, the theory of light diffraction only has the simple wave-optical approach. In this paper, we study light diffraction with the approach of relativistic quantum theory. We find that the slit length, slit width, slit thickness and…

Searches for dispersive effects in the propagation of light at cosmological distances have been touted as sensitive probes of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV) and of theories of quantum gravity. Frequency-dependent time lags between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-18 David C. Latimer

Light scattering in dense media is a fundamental problem of many-body physics, which is also relevant for the development of optical devices. In this work we investigate experimentally light propagation in a dense sample of randomly…

We analyze coherent wave transport in a new physical setting associated with multimode wave systems where reflection is completely suppressed and mode-dependent losses together with mode-mixing are dictating the wave propagation. An…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-24 P. Chiarawongse , H. Li , W. Xiong , C. W. Hsu , H. Cao , T. Kottos

In this tutorial paper, we consider the problem of electromagnetic scattering by a bounded two-dimensional dielectric object, and discuss certain interesting properties of the scattered field. Using the electric field integral equation,…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-08 Uday K. Khankhoje , Kushal Shah

On the basis of the eikonal approximation of quantum scattering theory, the problem of fast charged particles scattering in a thin crystal when particles fall along one its plane of atoms and in a thin layer of amorphous matter is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 N. F. Shul'ga , V. D. Koriukina

We present a theory of light scattering consistent with modern physics. We proposed a spatial-temporal model of a photon based on classical model of atomic oscillator. Using this photon model, we established a criterion for single vs…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-15 V. V. Semak , M. N. Shneider

The dispersion laws of Langmuir and transverse waves are calculated in the relativistic non-magnetized formalism for several isotropic particle distributions: thermal, power-law, relativistic Lorentzian $\kappa,$ and hybrid $\beta$. For…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman V. Shcherbakov

This paper reformulates and extends some recent analytical results concerning a new optical theorem and the associated physical bounds on absorption in lossy media. The analysis is valid for any linear scatterer (such as an antenna),…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-17 Sven Nordebo , Mats Gustafsson , Yevhen Ivanenko

We generalize the invariant imbedding theory of the wave propagation and derive new invariant imbedding equations for the propagation of arbitrary number of coupled waves of any kind in arbitrarily-inhomogeneous stratified media, where the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kihong Kim , Dong-Hun Lee , H. Lim

A detailed distribution of the force of electromagnetic radiation in and around dielectric media can be obtained by a direct application of the Lorentz law of force in conjunction with Maxwell's equations. We develop a theory of the force…

Optics · Physics 2012-07-12 Masud Mansuripur

We study non-relativistic propagation of Gaussian wave packets in one-dimensional Eckart potential, a barrier, or a well. In the picture used, the transmitted wave packet results from interference between the copies of the freely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 X. Gutiérrez de la Cal , M. Pons , D. Sokolovski

We consider the wave equation for sound in a moving fluid with a fourth-order anomalous dispersion relation. The velocity of the fluid is a linear function of position, giving two points in the flow where the fluid velocity matches the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-29 T. G. Philbin

Light propagation in a medium made of densely packed dielectric spheres is investigated by using a rigorous diffraction theory. It is shown that a substantial suppression of the local density of states occurs in spectral domains where the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Carsten Rockstuhl , Falk Lederer

In a recent letter [Europhys. Lett. 97, 34002 (2012)], random matrix theory is introduced for long-range acoustic propagation in the ocean. The theory is expressed in terms of unitary propagation matrices that represent the scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Katherine C. Hegewisch , Steven Tomsovic

The transformation from evanescent waves to propagation waves is the key mechanism for the realization of some super-resolution imaging methods. By using the recursive Green function and scattering-matrix theory, we investigated in details…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Dequan Zhang , Yuchen Xu , Ke Xu , Hao Zhang , Jing Li , Heyuan Zhu , Costas Soukoulis

Light scattering is one of the most established wave phenomena in optics, lying at the heart of light-matter interactions and of crucial importance for nanophotonic applications. Passivity, causality and energy conservation imply strict…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-23 Seunghwi Kim , Sergey Lepeshov , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alù