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We demonstrate that charged particles in a sufficiently intense standing wave are compressed toward, and oscillate synchronously at, the maxima of the electric field. This unusual trapping behaviour, which we call 'anomalous radiative…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 A. Gonoskov , A. Bashinov , I. Gonoskov , C. Harvey , A. Ilderton , A. Kim , M. Marklund , G. Mourou , A. Sergeev

In nature, many unicellular organisms are able to swim with the help of beating filaments, where local energy input leads to cooperative undulatory beating motion. Here, we investigate by employing reinforcement learning how undulatory…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Fumiya Tokoro , Hideki Takayama , Shinji Deguchi , Andreas Zöttl , Daiki Matsunaga

Quantifying the physical mechanisms responsible for the transport of sediments, nutrients and pollutants in the abyssal sea is a long-standing problem, with internal waves regularly invoked as the relevant mechanism for particle advection…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-26 E. Horne , F. Beckebanze , D. Micard , P. Odier , L. R. M. Maas , S. Joubaud

In this paper we study the concept of using the interaction between waves and a trainable medium in order to construct a matrix-vector multiplier. In particular we study such a device in the context of the backpropagation algorithm, which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Michiel Hermans , Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

In a uniformly rotating fluid, inertial waves propagate along rays that are inclined to the rotation axis by an angle that depends on the wave frequency. In closed domains, multiple reflections from the boundaries may cause inertial waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Laurène Jouve , Gordon Ogilvie

This paper is concerning the inverse conductive scattering of acoustic waves by a bounded inhomogeneous object with possibly embedded obstacles inside. A new uniqueness theorem is proved that the conductive object is uniquely determined by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Chengyu Wu , Jiaqing Yang

The tremendous progress in light scattering engineering made it feasible to develop optical tweezers allowing capture, hold, and controllable displacement of submicronsize particles and biological structures. However, the momentum…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-15 Sergey Lepeshov , Alex Krasnok

A quantum Monte Carlo method of determining Jastrow-Slater wave functions for which the energy is stationary with respect to variations in the single-particle orbitals is presented. A potential is determined by a least-squares fitting of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Fahy , Claudia Filippi

Angular momentum and torque are important principles for basic and applied physics on any spatial scales, for example, in elementary particles, cold gases, optical tweezers, quantum information technology, metamaterials, gyroscopes or…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-16 Y. Fang , J. Kuttruff , P. Baum

Gravitational waves propagate along null geodesics like light rays in the geometrical optics approximation, and they may have a chance to suffer from gravitational lensing by intervening objects, as is the case for electromagnetic waves.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-12 Yousuke Itoh , Toshifumi Futamase , Makoto Hattori

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been regarded as a potential dimension for optical communication and related fields. Despite several studies, the transmission of OAM beams through time-varying scattering media remains a challenge. In…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-08 Heshen Li , Jin Wei , Tianshun Zhang , Wen Chen

We demonstrate the trapping of elastic particles by the large gradient force of a single acoustical beam in three dimensions. Acoustical tweezers can push, pull and accurately control both the position and the forces exerted on a unique…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Diego Baresch , Jean-Louis Thomas , Régis Marchiano

More efficient agricultural machinery is needed as agricultural areas become more limited and energy and labor costs increase. To increase their efficiency, trajectory tracking problem of an autonomous tractor, as an agricultural production…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-15 Erkan Kayacan , Erdal Kayacan , Herman Ramon , Wouter Saeys

Diffraction tomography aims to recover an object's scattering potential from measured wave fields. In the classical setting, the object is illuminated by plane waves from many directions, and the Fourier diffraction theorem provides a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Peter Elbau , Noemi Naujoks

Manipulating mega biomolecules and micro-devices with light is highly appealing. Opto driving torque can propel micro-rotors to translational motion in viscous liquid, and then separate microsystems according to their handedness. We study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-05 Yiwen Tang , Zhibing Li

Consider an exterior problem of the three-dimensional elastic wave equation, which models the scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by a rigid obstacle. The scattering problem is reformulated into a boundary value problem by introducing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

Variational wave function ansatze are an invaluable tool to study the properties of strongly correlated systems. We propose such a wave function, based on the theory of auxiliary fields and combining aspects of auxiliary-field quantum Monte…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-13 Ryan Levy , Miguel A. Morales , Shiwei Zhang

In millimeter wave communications, beam training is an effective way to achieve beam alignment. Traditional beam training method allocates training resources equally to each beam in the pre-designed beam training codebook. The performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Zihan Tang , Jun Wang , Jintao Wang , Jian Song

Future radar systems are expected to use waveforms of a high bandwidth, where the main advantage is an improved range resolution. In this paper, a technique to design robust wideband waveforms for a Multiple-Input-Single-Output system is…

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