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We consider the light scattering problem for a Gaussian beam and a (spherical) particle at arbitrary location. Within the beam cross section, the total electromagnetic field is the superposition of the incident beam and the scattered wave.…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-09 Jonas Gienger

This investigation is concerned with the 2D acoustic scattering problem of a plane wave propagating in a non-lossy fluid host and soliciting a linear, isotropic, macroscopically-homogeneous, lossy, flat-plane layer in which the mass density…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Armand Wirgin

It is known that the Jost-function formulation of quantum scattering theory can be applied to classical problems concerned with the scattering of a plane scalar wave by a medium with a spherically symmetric inhomogeneity of finite extent.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-05-14 Umaporn Nuntaplook , John A Adam

A new method to find the propagation equation system governing the scattering of an electromagnetic wave by a nonlinear medium is proposed. The aim is to let the effects appear spontaneously, deleting as far as possible the phenomenological…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-08 Pierre Godard , Frederic Zolla , Andre Nicolet

A new parallel-in-time iterative method is proposed for solving the homogeneous second-order wave equation. The new method involves a coarse scale propagator, allowing for larger time steps, and a fine scale propagator which fully resolves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Hieu Nguyen , Richard Tsai

An analytic solution for a Fokker-Planck equation that describes propagation of energetic particles through a scattering medium is obtained. The solution is found in terms of an infinite series of mixed moments of particle distribution. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 M. A. Malkov

Numerical simulation of wave propagation in an infinite medium is made possible by surrounding a finite region by a perfectly matched layer (PML). Using this approach a generalized three-dimensional (3D) formulation is proposed for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Hisham Assi , Richard S. C. Cobbold

This paper considers a distributed wave-based sensing system that probes a scene consisting of multiple interacting idealized targets. Each sensor is a collocated transmit-receive pair that is capable of transmitting arbitrary wideband…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-27 Jerry Kim , Margaret Cheney , Eric Mokole

We consider wave scattering from a system of highly contrasting resonators with time-modulated material parameters. In this setting, the wave equation reduces to a system of coupled Helmholtz equations that models the scattering problem. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

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

The Helmholtz equation in one dimension, which describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves in effectively one-dimensional systems, is equivalent to the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The fact that the potential term…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

This paper is concerned with the analysis of elastic wave scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a biperiodic rigid surface, where the wave propagation is governed by the three-dimensional Navier equation. An exact transparent boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Xue Jiang , Peijun Li , Junliang Lv , Weiying Zheng

In this paper, two multiscale time integrators (MTIs), motivated from two types of multiscale decomposition by either frequency or frequency and amplitude, are proposed and analyzed for solving highly oscillatory second order differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Weizhu Bao , Xuanchun Dong , Xiaofei Zhao

Transport and scattering phenomena in open quantum-systems with a continuous energy spectrum are conveniently solved using the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. In the time-dependent picture, the evolution of an initially localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Tobias Kramer

The propagator of the discrete Schr\"odinger equation is computed and its properties are revealed through a Feynman path summation in discrete space. Initial data problems such as diffraction in discrete space and continuous time are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-01 Emerson Sadurní

The study of the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a linear isotropic medium with planar symmetry can be reduced to that of their TE and TM modes. For situations where the medium consists of parallel homogeneous slabs, one may use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

We study the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves by random arrays of dipolar cylinders in a uniform medium. A set of self-consistent equations, incorporating all orders of multiple scattering of the electromagnetic waves, is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

We investigate the transmission of scalar, electromagnetic, and linearized odd-parity gravitational waves in a static spacetime characterized by a spherical distribution of matter in the form of thin concentric equidistant shells of equal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-04 Rubén O. Acuña-Cárdenas , Olivier Sarbach , Luca Tessieri

A linear scattering problem for which incoming and outgoing waves are restricted to a finite number of radiation channels can be precisely described by a frequency-dependent scattering matrix. The entries of the scattering matrix, as…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Hongyao Wu , Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

The wave propagation in random medium plays a critical role in optics and quantum physics. Multiple scattering of coherent wave in a random medium determines the transport procedure. Brownian motions of the scatterers perturb each…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-25 Peng Miao , Yifan Zhang , Cheng Wang , Shanbao Tong