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Optics · Physics 2026-02-10 Akhlesh Lakhtakia

We introduce a Monte Carlo integration-based Shooting and Bouncing Ray (SBR) algorithm for electromagnetic scattering, specifically targeting complex dielectric materials. Unlike traditional deterministic SBR methods, our approach is the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Samuel Audia , Dinesh Manocha , Matthias Zwicker

A new method of solution is proposed for solution of the wave equation in one space dimension with continuously-varying coefficients. By considering all paths along which information arrives at a given point, the solution is expressed as an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Jithin D. George , David I. Ketcheson , Randall J. LeVeque

In this paper we demonstrate a computational method to solve the inverse scattering problem for a star-shaped, smooth, penetrable obstacle in 2D. Our method is based on classical ideas from computational geometry. First, we approximate the…

We developed a Monte Carlo simulation method to calculate incoherent Thomson scattering spectra in high temperature plasmas. The basic idea is to treat the entire scattering process as the superposition of individual photon-electron…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Kentaro Sakai , Kentaro Tomita , Takeo Hoshi , Ryo Yasuhara

We address the possibility of performing numerical Monte Carlo simulations for the thermodynamics of quantum dissipative systems. Dissipation is considered within the Caldeira-Leggett formulation, which describes the system in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Capriotti , Alessandro Cuccoli , Andrea Fubini , Valerio Tognetti , Ruggero Vaia

The one-sided bouncer and the symmetric bouncer involve a one-dimensional particle in a piecewise linear potential. For such problems, the time-dependent quantum mechanical propagator cannot be found in closed form. The semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Yen Lee Loh , Chee Kwan Gan

Monte Carlo radiative transfer, which has been demonstrated as a successful algorithm for modeling radiation transport through the astrophysical medium, relies on sampling of scattering phase functions. We review several classic sampling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Jianing Zhang

We introduce a novel method to compute gravitational wave amplitudes within the framework of effective field theory. By reinterpreting the Feynman diagram expansion as a Born series, our method offers several key advantages. It directly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Simon Caron-Huot , Miguel Correia , Giulia Isabella , Mikhail Solon

A path integral Monte Carlo method (PIMC) based on Feynman-Kac formula for mixed boundary conditions of elliptic equations is proposed to solve the forward problem of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) on the boundary to obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-01 Yijing Zhou , Wei Cai

This chapter is a pedagogical review of methods and results for studying wave propagation in one-dimensional complex structures. We describe and compare the tight-binding, scattering matrix, transfer matrix and Riccati formalisms. We…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-02 Eric Akkermans , Gerald Dunne , Eli Levy

Starting from the ACV approach to transplanckian scattering, we present a development of the reduced-action model in which the (improved) eikonal representation is able to describe particles' motion at large scattering angle and,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Marcello Ciafaloni , Dimitri Colferai

We combine the observable-based formalism (KMOC), the analytic properties of the scattering amplitude, generalised unitarity and the heavy-mass expansion with a newly introduced IBP reduction for Fourier integrals, to provide an efficient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-17 Giacomo Brunello , Stefano De Angelis

Monte Carlo evaluation is used to calculate heavy-ion elastic scattering including the center-of-mass correction and the Coulomb interaction.Angular distributions are presented for a number of nuclear pairs over a wide energy range using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 W. R. Gibbs , Jean-Pierre Dedonder

The proposed numerical method, "FLAME-slab," solves electromagnetic wave scattering problems for aperiodic slab structures by exploiting short-range regularities in these structures. The computational procedure involves special difference…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-19 Shampy Mansha , Igor Tsukerman , Y. D. Chong

We discuss the efficiency of Monte Carlo methods in solving continuum radiative transfer problems. The sampling of the radiation field and convergence of dust temperature calculations in the case of optically thick clouds are both studied.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela

Electromagnetic wave scattering from planar dielectric films deposited on one-dimensional, randomly rough, perfectly conducting substrates is studied by numerical simulations for both p- and s-polarization. The reduced Rayleigh equation,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-25 I. Simonsen , A. A. Maradudin

The inverse scattering problem, whose goal is to reconstruct an unknown scattering object from its scattered wave, is essential in fundamental wave physics and its wide applications in imaging sciences. However, it remains challenging to…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-08 Moosung Lee , Herve Hugonnet , YongKeun Park

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

The factorization method by Kirsch (1998) provides a necessary and sufficient condition for characterizing the shape and position of an unknown scatterer by using far-field patterns of infinitely many time-harmonic plane waves at a fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Guanqiu Ma , Guanghui Hu