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Introducing precise spatio-temporal structure into a pulsed optical field can lead to remarkable changes with its free propagation. `Space-time' (ST) wave packets, for example, propagate rigidly at a tunable group velocity in free space by…

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Inertial waves in fluid regions of planets and stars play an important role in their dynamics and evolution, through energy, heat and angular momentum transport and mixing of chemicals. While inertial wave propagation in flows prescribed by…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Lennart Kira , Jerome Noir , Daniel Lecoanet

Utilizing scatterers in communication engineering, such as reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and backscatter systems, requires physically consistent models for accurate performance prediction. A multiport model, which also accounts…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Aleksandr D. Kuznetsov , Jari Holopainen , Ville Viikari

Waves in excitable media can be treated by a simple geometric theory. The propagation velocity is assumed known and evolution of wave fronts is determined by elementary physical principles (Fermat's principle, Huygens' principle). Based on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Kristof Kaly-Kullai

The time-frequency integrals and the two-dimensional stationary phase method are applied to study the electromagnetic waves radiated by moving modulated sources in dispersive media. We show that such unified approach leads to explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Gennadiy Burlak , Vladimir Rabinovich

We study the existence and propagation of singularities of the solution to a one-dimensional linear stochastic wave equation driven by an additive Gaussian noise that is white in time and colored in space. Our approach is based on a…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Cheuk Yin Lee , Yimin Xiao

Consider the scattering of an acoustic plane wave by a bounded elastic obstacle which is immersed in an open space filled with a homogeneous medium. This paper concerns the mathematical analysis of the coupled two- and three-dimensional…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Peijun Li , Lei Zhang

We present scattering from many body systems in a new light. In place of the usual van Hove treatment, (applicable to a wide range of scattering processes using both photons and massive particles) based on plane waves, we calculate the…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Gaehler , J. Felber , F. Mezei , R. Golub

The Schroedinger equation with an energy-dependent complex absorbing potential, associated with a scattering system, can be reduced for a special choice of the energy-dependence to a harmonic inversion problem of a discrete pseudo-time…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Neumaier , V. A. Mandelshtam

This paper overviews the principles, theoretical analysis and numerical simulation of STM media and their applications in communication systems. We first present a global perspective on the principles of ST modulation, naturally and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Sajjad Taravati , Ahmed A. Kishk

We start from the remark that in wave turbulence theory, exemplified by the cubic twodimensional Schr{\"o}dinger equation (NLS) on the real plane, the regularity of the resonant manifold is linked with dispersive properties of the equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Erwan Faou , Antoine Mouzard

With the increasing use of ultrashort laser pulses and nanoscale-materials, one is regularly confronted to situations in which the properties of the media supporting propagation are not varying slowly with time (or space). Hence, the usual…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Guillaume Petite , Alexander Shvartsburg

We devote this paper to the issue of existence of pulsating travelling front solutions for spatially periodic heterogeneous reaction-diffusion equations in arbitrary dimension, in both bistable and more general multistable frameworks. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-23 Thomas Giletti , Luca Rossi

In this paper, the unidirectional pulse propagation equation generalized to structured media is derived. A fast modal transform linking the spatio-temporal representation of the field and its modal distribution is presented. This transform…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Béjot

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

This paper is devoted to study the wave propagation and its stability for a class of two-component discrete diffusive systems. We first establish the existence of positive monotone monostable traveling wave fronts. Then, applying the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Zhixian Yu , Yuji Wan , Cheng-Hsiung Hsu

The aim of the lecture is to briefly describe the mathematical background of scattering theory for two- and three-particle quantum systems. We discuss basic objects of the theory: wave and scattering operators and the corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-27 Dmitri Yafaev

An inverse obstacle problem for the wave governed by the wave equation in a two layered medium is considered under the framework of the time domain enclosure method. The wave is generated by an initial data supported on a closed ball in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-09 Masaru Ikehata , Mishio Kawashita , Wakako Kawashita

Problem of long-range sound propagation in the randomly-inhomogeneous deep ocean is considered. We examine a novel approach for modeling of wave propagation, developed by K.C.Hegewisch and S.Tomsovic. This approach relies on construction of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-01 Denis Makarov

Motivated by recent experiments, the theoretical study of wave propagation in time varying materials is of current interest. Although significant in nearly all such experiments, material dispersion is commonly neglected in theoretical…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bryce Dixon , Calvin M. Hooper , Ian R. Hooper , Simon A. R. Horsley