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Herein, we investigate the optical properties of quantum plasmonic metasurfaces composed of metallic nano-objects with subnanometer gaps according to the time-dependent density functional theory, a fully quantum mechanical approach. When…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-17 Takashi Takeuchi , Masashi Noda , Kazuhiro Yabana

Based on an analytic approach, we present a theoretical review on the absorption, scattering, and extinction of both dipole scatterers and regular arrays composed of such scatterers i.e., metasurfaces. Besides offering a tutorial by…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-06 Rasoul Alaee , Mohammad Albooyeh , Carsten Rockstuhl

This chapter describes techniques for the numerical resolution of optimal transport problems. We will consider several discretizations of these problems, and we will put a strong focus on the mathematical analysis of the algorithms to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Quentin Merigot , Boris Thibert

In this work, we present a novel tool for reconstructing networks from corrupted images. The reconstructed network is the result of a minimization problem that has a misfit term with respect to the observed data, and a physics-based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Enrico Facca , Jan Martin Nordbotten , Erik Andreas Hanson

Motivated by applications in quantitative photoacoustic imaging, we study inverse problems to a semilinear radiative transport equation (RTE) where we intend to reconstruct absorption coefficients in the equation from single and multiple…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Kui Ren , Yimin Zhong

We describe a new model for image propagation through open air in the presence of changes in the index of refraction (e.g. due to turbulence) using the theory of optimal transport. We describe the relationship between photon density, or…

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

In the recent paper [17] the first experimental determination of the density matrix of a free electron beam has been reported. The employed method leads to a linear inverse problem with a positive semidefinite operator as unknown. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-19 Cong Shi , Claus Ropers , Thorsten Hohage

This paper deals with the optimal synthesis of aperture fields for (radiating) near-field communications in obstructed environments. A physically consistent model based on knife-edge diffraction is used to formulate the problem as a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-31 Francesco Verde , Donatella Darsena , Marco Di Renzo , Vincenzo Galdi

The inverse radiative transfer problem finds broad applications in medical imaging, atmospheric science, astronomy, and many other areas. This problem intends to recover the optical properties, denoted as absorption and scattering…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Qin Li , Ruiwen Shu , Li Wang

This paper presents a widely applicable approach to solving (multi-marginal, martingale) optimal transport and related problems via neural networks. The core idea is to penalize the optimization problem in its dual formulation and reduce it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-28 Stephan Eckstein , Michael Kupper

The inverse reflector problem aims to design a freeform reflecting surface that can direct the light from a specified source to produce the desired illumination in the target area, which is significant in the field of geometrical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Gang Bao , Yixuan Zhang

We demonstrate the effectiveness of one of the many multi-tracer analyses enabled by Optimal Transport (OT) reconstruction. Leveraging a semi-discrete OT algorithm, we determine the displacements between initial and observed positions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Farnik Nikakhtar , Ravi K. Sheth , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Bruno Lévy , Roya Mohayaee

Metasurfaces have become a promising means for manipulating optical wavefronts in flat and high-performance optical devices. Conventional metasurface device design relies on trial-and-error methods to obtain target electromagnetic (EM)…

We consider the Monge problem of optimal transport between a compactly supported source measure and a target probability measure with unbounded support. We consider the convergence of optimal maps and potential functions when the target…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Axel G. R. Turnquist

Inverse boundary value problems for the radiative transport equation play important roles in optics-based medical imaging techniques such as diffuse optical tomography (DOT) and fluorescence optical tomography (FOT). Despite the rapid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Tian Ding , Kui Ren

We propose two deep neural network-based methods for solving semi-martingale optimal transport problems. The first method is based on a relaxation/penalization of the terminal constraint, and is solved using deep neural networks. The second…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Ivan Guo , Nicolas Langrené , Grégoire Loeper , Wei Ning

We consider the geometric optics problem of finding a system of two reflectors that transform a spherical wavefront into a beam of parallel rays with prescribed intensity distribution. Using techniques from optimal transportation theory, it…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-08 Tilmann Glimm , Nick Henscheid

In this work, we propose a novel implementation of Newton's method for solving semi-discrete optimal transport (OT) problems for cost functions which are a positive combination of $p$-norms, $1<p<\infty$. It is well understood that the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Luca Dieci , Daniyar Omarov

We present a simple yet powerful framework for solving inverse problems by leveraging automatic differentiation. Our method is broadly applicable whenever a smooth cost function can be defined near the true solution, and a numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-06-17 Koji Kobayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki