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Time-symmetric quantum mechanics can be described in the usual Weyl--Wigner--Moyal formalism (WWM) by using the properties of the Wigner distribution, and its generalization, the cross-Wigner distribution. The use of the latter makes clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Charlyne de Gosson , Maurice de Gosson

Resonances of open non-Hermitian systems are associated with the poles of the system scattering matrix. Perturbations of the system cause these poles to shift in the complex frequency plane. In this work, we introduce a novel method for…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-03 Niall Byrnes , Matthew R. Foreman

Analytical methods are fundamental in studying acoustics problems. One of the important tools is the Wiener-Hopf method, which can be used to solve many canonical problems with sharp transitions in boundary conditions on a plane/plate.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Matthew Nethercote , Anastasia Kisil , Raphael Assier

This is the first of two subsequent publications where the probability distribution of delay-times in scattering of wave packets is discussed. The probability distribution is expressed in terms of the on-shell scattering matrix, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Uzy Smilansky

The Friedrichs model~\cite{Friedrichs} is revisited to obtain precise results about the asymptotic behaviour (the so-called Breit-Wigner formula~\cite{Breit}) of a resonance near an embedded eigenvalue and the ``spectral concentration"…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Hemant Bansal , Alok Maharana , Lingaraj Sahu , Kalyan B. Sinha

Since Berry's pioneering 1984 work, the separation of geometric and dynamic contributions in the {\it phase} of an evolving wave has become fundamental in physics, underpinning diverse phenomena in quantum mechanics, optics, and condensed…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Zeyu Kuang , Stefan Rotter

Using the concept of minimal chaotic cavities, we give the distribution of the proper delay times of $Q=-i\hbar S^\dagger \frac{\partial S}{\partial E}$ at the spectrum edge with a scattering matrix $S$ belonging to circular ensembles CE.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-12 Adel Abbout

Scattering by an isolated defect embedded in a dielectric medium of two dimensional periodicity is of interest in many sub-fields of electrodynamics. Present approaches to compute this scattering rely either on the Born approximation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-10 Kuljit S. Virk

This paper presents a class of boundary integral equation methods for the numerical solution of acoustic and electromagnetic time-domain scattering problems in the presence of unbounded penetrable interfaces in two-spatial dimensions. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Ignacio Labarca , Luiz M. Faria , Carlos Pérez-Arancibia

Causality creates an asymmetry between space and time, even though the wave equation treats them on equal footing. In this work, we leverage this asymmetry to construct a cross-mapping between space and time. This cross-mapping is applied…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 Mohamed A. Salem , Christophe Caloz

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

This papers investigates the scattering of oblique shear horizontal (SH) waves off finite periodic media made of elastic and viscoelastic layers. It further considers whether a Willis-type constitutive matrix (in temporal and spatial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Alireza V. Amirkhizi , Vahidreza Alizadeh

Assuming the validity of random matrices for describing the statistics of a closed chaotic quantum system, we study analytically some statistical properties of the S-matrix characterizing scattering in its open counterpart. In the first…

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Space-time materials are obtained by modulating a physical medium with a traveling-wave perturbation of one or several of its constitutive parameters, such as the density or the bulk modulus in the case of acoustic materials. When this…

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Efficient time integration methods based on operator splitting are introduced for the Westervelt equation, a nonlinear damped wave equation that arises in nonlinear acoustics as mathematical model for the propagation of sound waves in high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-07 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Vanja Nikolic , Mechthild Thalhammer

The time domain linear sampling method (TD-LSM) solves inverse scattering problems using time domain data by creating an indicator function for the support of the unknown scatterer. It involves only solving a linear integral equation called…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Timo Lähivaara , Peter Monk , Virginia Selgas

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 work studies time-dependent electromagnetic scattering from obstacles whose interaction with the wave is fully determined by a nonlinear boundary condition. In particular, the boundary condition studied in this work enforces a power…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Jörg Nick

Sharp-momentum transition matrix elements for scattering from a short-range Gaussian potential are computed using a real-time path integral. The computation is based on a numerical implementation of a new interpretation of the path integral…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2018-09-10 W. N. Polyzou , Ekaterina Nathanson

This study proposes a framework for incorporating wavenumber-domain acoustic reflection coefficients into sound field analysis to characterize direction-dependent material reflection and scattering phenomena. The reflection coefficient is…

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