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The purpose of this work is to study spectral methods to approximate the eigenvalues of nonlocal integral operators. Indeed, even if the spatial domain is an interval, it is very challenging to obtain closed analytical expressions for the…

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This paper is concerned with the accurate numerical approximation of the spectral properties of the biharmonic operator on various domains in two dimensions. A number of analytic results concerning the eigenfunctions of this operator are…

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In this paper, we focus on the numerical analysis of quantitative photoacoustic tomography. Our goal is to reconstruct the optical coefficients, i.e., the diffusion and absorption coefficients, using multiple internal observational data.…

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We analyze a numerical method for computing Fredholm determinants of trace class and Hilbert Schmidt integral operators defined in terms of matrix-valued kernels on the entire real line. With this method, the Fredholm determinant is…

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In this paper, we study a Dirac boundary value problem where the operator is considered with a derivative of order $\alpha \in (0, 1]$, known as the $F^{\alpha}$-derivative. We prove some spectral properties of eigenvalues and…

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In this paper, the linear free flexural vibration of cracked functionally graded material plates is studied using the extended finite element method. A 4-noded quadrilateral plate bending element based on field and edge consistency…

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Band structures of several metamaterials are described by generalized eigenvalue equations where complex bands emerge even if the involved matrices are Hermitian. In this paper, we provide a geometrical understanding of the real-complex…

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One of the most used approaches in simulating materials is the tight-binding approximation. When using this method in a material simulation, it is necessary to compute the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian describing the…

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We present a flexible method that can calculate Bloch modes, complex band structures, and impedances of two-dimensional photonic crystals from scattering data produced by widely available numerical tools. The method generalizes previous…

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We propose a method to directly visualize the photonic band-structure of micron size photonic crystals using wide angle spectroscopy. By extending Fourier Imaging Spectroscopy sensitivity into the infrared range we have obtained accurate…

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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Marcus Stålhammar , Cristiane Morais Smith

We consider fourth order singularly perturbed eigenvalue problems in one-dimension and the approximation of their solution by the $h$ version of the Finite Element Method (FEM). In particular, we use piecewise Hermite polynomials of degree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Hans-Görg Roos , Despo Savvidou , Christos Xenophontos

The band structures of the photonic crystal slabs play a significant role in manipulating the flow of light and pre-dicting exotic physics in photonics. In this letter, we show that the key features of photonic band structures can be…

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We investigate the band-gap structure of the frequency spectrum for elastic waves in a high-contrast, two-component periodic elastic medium. We consider two-dimensional phononic crystals consisting of a background medium which is perforated…

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The study of resonances of the Schr\"{o}dinger operator has a long-standing tradition in mathematical physics. Extensive theoretical investigations have explored the proximity of resonances to the real axis, their distribution, and bounds…

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With the regular decomposition technique, we decompose the space $\mathbf{H}_0^s(\mathbf{curl}; \Omega)$ into the sum of a vector potential space and the gradient of a scalar space, both possessing higher regularity. Based on this new high…

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The spectral properties of the Frobenius-Perron operator of one-dimensional maps are studied when approaching a weakly intermittent situation. Numerical investigation of a particular family of maps shows that the spectrum becomes extremely…

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In this paper we introduce and analyze, for two and three dimensions, a finite element method to approximate the natural frequencies of a flow system governed by the Stokes-Brinkman equations. Here, the fluid presents the capability of…

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We investigate the optical properties of a photonic crystal composed of a quasi-one-dimensional flat-band lattice array through finite-difference time-domain simulations. The photonic bands contain flat bands (FBs) at specific frequencies,…