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Superoscillations are band-limited functions that can oscillate faster than their fastest Fourier component. These functions (or sequences) appear in weak values in quantum mechanics and in many fields of science and technology such as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Y. Aharonov , F. Colombo , I. Sabadini , T. Shushi , D. C. Struppa , J. Tollaksen

Surprisingly, differentiable functions are able to oscillate arbitrarily faster than their highest Fourier component would suggest. The phenomenon is called superoscillation. Recently, a practical method for calculating superoscillatory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. S. Calder , A. Kempf

In the last decade there has been a growing interest in superoscillations in various fields of mathematics, physics and engineering. However, while in applications as optics the local oscillatory behaviour is the important property, some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Jussi Behrndt , Fabrizio Colombo , Peter Schlosser , Daniele C. Struppa

Superoscillatory functions represent a counterintuitive phenomenon in physics but also in mathematics, where a band-limited function oscillates faster than its highest Fourier component. They appear in various contexts, including quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 F. Colombo , F. Mantovani , S. Pinton , P. Schlosser

Superoscillations are band-limited functions with the peculiar characteristic that they can oscillate with a frequency arbitrarily faster than their fastest Fourier component. First anticipated in different contexts, such as optics or radar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Marc Nairn

A recipe is presented for constructing band-limited superoscillating functions that exhibit arbitrarily high frequencies over arbitrarily long intervals.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Masud Mansuripur , Per K. Jakobsen

It has been found that functions can oscillate locally much faster than their Fourier transform would suggest is possible - a phenomenon called superoscillation. Here, we consider the case of superoscillating wave functions in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Achim Kempf , Paulo J. S. G. Ferreira

Superoscillations have roots in various scientific disciplines, including optics, signal processing, radar theory, and quantum mechanics. This intriguing mathematical phenomenon permits specific functions to oscillate at a rate surpassing…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-03-12 F. Colombo , I. Sabadini , D. C. Struppa , A. Yger

In the past 50 years, quantum physicists have discovered, and experimentally demonstrated, a phenomenon which they termed superoscillations. Aharonov and his collaborators showed that superoscillations naturally arise when dealing with weak…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 Y. Aharonov , F. Colombo , I. Sabadini , D. C. Struppa , J. Tollaksen

Superoscillating functions, i.e., functions that locally oscillate at a rate faster than their highest Fourier component, are of interest for applications from fundamental physics to engineering. Here, we develop a new method which allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Leilee Chojnacki , Achim Kempf

A function f is said to possess superoscillations if, in a finite region, f oscillates faster than the shortest wavelength that occurs in the Fourier transform of f. I will discuss four aspects of superoscillations: 1. Superoscillations can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Achim Kempf

In this paper we describe a general method to generate superoscillatory functions of several variables starting from a superoscillating sequence of one variable. Our results are based on the study of suitable infinite order differential…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Fabrizio Colombo , Stefano Pinton , Irene Sabadini , Daniele Struppa

This book chapter gives a selective review of physical implementations and applications of superoscillations and associated phenomena. We introduce the field by reviewing simple examples of superoscillations and showing how their existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell , Nicholas Vamivakas , Ebrahim Karimi

In this manuscript, we discuss the use of describing functions as a systematic approach to the analysis and design of oscillators. Describing functions are traditionally used to study the stability of nonlinear control systems, and have…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-10-06 Tianshi Wang

Superoscillatory wave forms, i.e., waves that locally oscillate faster than their highest Fourier component, possess unusual properties that make them of great interest from quantum mechanics to signal processing. However, the more…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Eugene Tang , Lovneesh Garg , Achim Kempf

Super-oscillation is a counter-intuitive phenomenon describing localized fast variations of functions and fields that happen at frequencies higher than the highest Fourier component of their spectra. The physical implications of the effect…

We report a method for constructing bandpass functions that approximate a given analytic function with arbitrary accuracy over a finite interval. A corollary is that bandpass functions can be obtained that oscillate arbitrarily slower than…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Ioannis Chremmos , Yujie Chen , George Fikioris

We show that thick morphisms (or microformal morphisms) between smooth (super)manifolds, introduced by us before, are classical limits of `quantum thick morphisms' defined here as particular oscillatory integral operators on functions.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-25 Theodore Voronov

The goal of this work is to introduce and study fuzzy limits of functions. Two approaches to fuzzy limits of a function are considered. One is based on the concept of a fuzzy limit of a sequence, while another generalizes the conventional…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mark Burgin

The aim of this paper is to study generating functions for the coefficients of the classical superoscillatory function associated with weak measurements. We also establish some new relations between the superoscillatory coefficients and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Fabrizio Colombo , Rolf Soeren Krausshar , Irene Sabadini , Yilmaz Simsek
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