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This work investigates the inverse drift problem in the one-dimensional parabolic equation with the final time data. The authors construct an operator first, whose fixed points are the unknown drift, and then apply it to prove the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Dakang Cen , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

Time-reflection is a uniform inversion of the temporal evolution of a signal, which arises when an abrupt change in the properties of the host material occurs uniformly in space. At such a time-interface, a portion of the input signal is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hady Moussa , Gengyu Xu , Shixiong Yin , Emanuele Galiffi , Younes Radi , Andrea Alù

Most diffusion models assume that the reverse process adheres to a Gaussian distribution. However, this approximation has not been rigorously validated, especially at singularities, where t=0 and t=1. Improperly dealing with such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Pengze Zhang , Hubery Yin , Chen Li , Xiaohua Xie

Adaptivity and local mesh refinement are crucial for the efficient numerical simulation of wave phenomena in complex geometry. Local mesh refinement, however, can impose a tiny time-step across the entire computational domain when using…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Marcus J. Grote , Simon R. J. Michel , Stefan A. Sauter

In this paper we develop the theory of discrete averaging designed to study discrete time dynamical systems defined by iterates of a map. The discrete averaging uses weighted averages over a segment of trajectory to find an autonomous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Vassili Gelfreich , Arturo Vieiro

The purpose of this paper is to investigate several issues concerning the Dirac equation from a time-frequency analysis perspective. More precisely, we provide estimates in weighted modulation and Wiener amalgam spaces for the solutions of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-05 S. Ivan Trapasso

We consider an inverse problem for the elastic wave of simultaneously reconstructing the impedance and the geometric information of the bounded body that is occupied by a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium from the measured Cauchy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Yao Sun , Yan Chang , Yukun Guo

We simulate the dynamics of paramagnetic colloidal particles that are placed above a magnetic hexagonal pattern and exposed to an external field periodically changing its direction along a control loop. The conformation of three colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Adrian Ernst , Anna M. E. B. Rossi , Thomas M. Fischer

All paradoxes concerning faster-than-light signal propagation reported in recent experiments can be dispelled by using imaginary time in a quantum framework. I present a proposal of testing imaginary time in a total reflection.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Zhong Chao Wu

We show that the delay time distribution for wave reflection from a one-dimensional random potential is related directly to that of the reflection coefficient, derived with an arbitrarily small but uniform imaginary part added to the random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , N. Kumar

We show that short pulses propagating in zero-gap periodic systems can be reversed with 100% efficiency by using weak non-adiabatic tuning of the wave velocity at time-scales that can be much slower than the period. Unlike previous schemes,…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yonatan Sivan , John B. Pendry

I present a way to visualize the concept of curved spacetime. The result is a curved surface with local coordinate systems (Minkowski Systems) living on it, giving the local directions of space and time. Relative to these systems, special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rickard Jonsson

Spatio-temporally modulated impedance surfaces can be good candidates for generation of radiating waves with arbitrary eigenstates by breaking momentum and energy conservations. Here, we present a theoretical framework based on the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-12-16 Amrollah Amini , Homayoon Oraizi

Two accelerated imaginary-time evolution methods are proposed for the computation of solitary waves in arbitrary spatial dimensions. For the first method (with traditional power normalization), the convergence conditions as well as…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-11-22 Jianke Yang , Taras I. Lakoba

This work addresses the problem of uniquely determining a rotational motion from continuous time-dependent measurements within the frameworks of parallel-beam and diffraction tomography. The motivation stems from the challenge of imaging…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Peter Elbau , Denise Schmutz

Circumventing the reciprocity invariance has posed an interesting challenge in the design of modern devices for wave engineering. In passive devices, operating the device in the nonlinear response regime is a common means for realizing…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Andrus Giraldo , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

Wavelet frame systems are known to be effective in capturing singularities from noisy and degraded images. In this paper, we introduce a new edge driven wavelet frame model for image restoration by approximating images as piecewise smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Jae Kyu Choi , Bin Dong , Xiaoqun Zhang

This paper is concerned with the classical inverse scattering problem to recover the refractive index of a medium given near or far field measurements of scattered time-harmonic acoustic waves. It contains the first rigorous proof of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Thorsten Hohage , Frederic Weidling

The use of simultaneous sources in geophysical inverse problems has revolutionized the ability to deal with large scale data sets that are obtained from multiple source experiments. However, the technique breaks when the data has…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-04-22 Eldad Haber , Mathias Chung

Time-like and space-like invariant space-time intervals are used to analyse measurements of spatial and temporal distances defined by two spatially-separated clocks. The time dilatation effect is confirmed, but not `relativity of…

General Physics · Physics 2009-09-01 J. H. Field