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Numerical transfer matrices have been widely used in the study of wave propagation and scattering. These may be viewed as descretizations of a recently introduced fundamental notion of transfer matrix which admits a representation in terms…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

We study Maxwell's equations in random media with small fluctuations of the electric permittivity. We consider a setup where the waves propagate toward a preferred direction, called range. We decompose the electromagnetic wave field in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

Harmonic generation in the scattered fields produced by a dielectric sphere coated with a time-varying conductive shell is studied using a Mie theory approach hybridized with conversion matrix methods. Analytic results are derived for plane…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kurt Schab , Bradley Shirley , K. C. Kerby-Patel

A rigorous and computationally efficient method is presented for evaluating the reflection coefficients of antennas operating above planar layered media. The approach reformulates the problem within the framework of the antenna's…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Chenbo Shi , Shichen Liang , Xin Gu , Jin Pan

This paper develops a scattering theory for the asymmetric transport observed at interfaces separating two-dimensional topological insulators. Starting from the spectral decomposition of an unperturbed interface Hamiltonian, we present a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Binglu Chen , Guillaume Bal

We propose a novel scheme to normalize scattering modes of the electromagnetic field. By relying on analytical solutions for Maxwell's equations in the homogenous medium outside the scatterer, we derive normalization conditions that only…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-06 J. Oppermann , J. Straubel , I. Fernandez-Corbaton , C. Rockstuhl

We enhanced the total transmission of light through a disordered waveguide with spatially inhomogeneous scattering and loss by shaping the incident wavefront of a laser beam. Using an on-chip tapered lead, we were able to access all input…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-20 Raktim Sarma , Alexey Yamilov , Hui Cao

We present a Bloch modes' based Green's function scattering formalism for cost efficient forward modelling of disordered binary surface textures. The usage of Bloch modes of an unperturbed reference ordered system as ansatz allows our…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 A. Abass , A. Martins , S. Nanz , B. -H. V. Borges , E. R. Martins , C. Rockstuhl

We introduce a theoretical formalism to describe disorder-induced extrinsic scattering in slow-light photonic crystal waveguides. This work details and extends the optical scattering theory used in a recent \emph{Physical Review Letter} [M.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 M. Patterson , S. Hughes

We analyze and develop numerical methods for time-harmonic wave scattering in metallic waveguide structures of infinite extent. We show that radiation boundary conditions formulated via projectors onto outgoing modes determine the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Tristan Goodwill , Shidong Jiang , Manas Rachh , Kosuke Sugita

Statistical properties of Wigner delay times and the effect of evanescent modes on the deterministic scattering of an electron matter wave from a classically chaotic 2-d electron waveguide are studied for the case of 2, 6, and 16…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. B. Akguc , L. E. Reichl

This paper presents a unified formulation for synthesizing the generalized scattering matrix (GS-matrix) of hybrid electromagnetic systems comprising arbitrary numbers of antennas and scatterers. The proposed method provides a modular…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Chenbo Shi , Shichen Liang , Jin Pan , Xin Gu , Le Zuo

Recently, complex wavefront engineering with disordered media has demonstrated optical manipulation capabilities beyond those of conventional optics. These capabilities include extended volume, aberration-free focusing and subwavelength…

Universality in physics describes how disparate systems can exhibit identical low-energy behavior. Here, we reveal a rich landscape of new universal scattering phenomena governed by the interplay between an interaction and a system's…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yidan Wang , Xuesen Na , Michael J. Gullans , Susanne Yelin , Alexey V. Gorshkov

This paper introduces a novel matrix-free approach for full waveform inversion in anisotropic elastic media, incorporating density variation through the utilization of the distorted Born iterative method. This study aims to overcome the…

The superposition principle is fundamental to linear wave systems, ensuring that their physical behaviour is independent of the chosen basis representation. While this principle underpins many analytical techniques, including modal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Michael Mazilu , Andriejus Demčenko

Wavefront shaping enables targeted delivery of coherent light into random-scattering media, such as biological tissue, by constructive interference of scattered waves. However, broadband waves have short coherence times, weakening the…

A version of scattering theory that was developed many years ago to treat nuclear scattering processes, has provided a powerful tool to study universality in scattering processes involving open quantum systems with underlying classically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 L. E. Reichl , G. Akguc

We develop a theoretical model to investigate wave propagation in media with random time-varying properties, where temporal fluctuations lead to complex scattering dynamics. Focusing on the ensemble-averaged field, we derive an exact…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Romain Pierrat , Julia Rocha , Rémi Carminati

The scattering transform is a multilayered, wavelet-based transform initially introduced as a model of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that has played a foundational role in our understanding of these networks' stability and invariance…