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High accuracy calculations of atomic properties require using long basis sets. In particular, it is necessary to include large number of partial waves and estimate truncation corrections. The convergence in partial waves is known to be…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 M. G. Kozlov

Astrometry, the precise measurement of star motions, offers an alternative avenue to investigate low-frequency gravitational waves through the spatial deflection of photons, complementing pulsar timing arrays reliant on timing residuals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-06 Mesut Çalışkan , Yifan Chen , Liang Dai , Neha Anil Kumar , Isak Stomberg , Xiao Xue

Ultrasonic backscatter measurements are widely used for microstructural characterisation. However, in materials containing strong anisotropy and spatial heterogeneity, the interpretation of backscatter signals becomes challenging because…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Wei Yi Yeoh , Bo Lan , Michael J. S. Lowe

The quantum variables that can be accessed directly by experiments are described by observables. Therefore, physical parameters can only be evaluated indirectly, via estimations based on experimental measurement results. I show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 B. M. Escher

The problem to estimate the background due to accidental coincidences in the search for coincidences in gravitational wave experiments is discussed. The use of delayed coincidences obtained by orderly shifting the event times of one of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Astone , S. Frasca , G. Pizzella

We found that in contrast with the common premise, a measurement on the environment of an open quantum system can {\em reduce} its decoherence rate. We demonstrate it by studying an example of indirect qubit's measurement, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yin Ye , Yunshan Cao , Xin-Qi Li , Shmuel Gurvitz

Performing a large number of spatial measurements enables high-resolution photoacoustic imaging without specific prior information. However, the acquisition of spatial measurements is time-consuming, costly, and technically challenging. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Gerhard Zangerl , Markus Haltmeier

In sight of fundamental thermal limits on further substantial performance improvements of modern digital computational processing units, wave-based analog computation is becoming an enticing alternative. A wave, as it propagates through a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Philipp del Hougne , Geoffroy Lerosey

We show how to obtain a Bayesian estimate of the rates or numbers of signal and background events from a set of events when the shapes of the signal and background distributions are known, can be estimated, or approximated; our method works…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Will M. Farr , Jonathan R. Gair , Ilya Mandel , Curt Cutler

Understanding how sound propagates through different media is fundamental to both science and technology. While sound plays a critical role in natural navigation and underlies a wide range of applications - from medical ultrasound to sonar…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-07-30 Helio Takai , Tom Tomaszewski , Jeremy Tomaszewski , Joe Sundermier

We calculate the ``seeing'' effect on distant sources due to a gravitational wave background. We derive the limit in strain and energy density of the gravitational wave based on the limit of detectability of this effect with the present day…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francine Marleau , Glenn Starkman

Basic aspects of the background of gravitational waves and its mathematical characterization are reviewed. The spectral energy density parameter $\Omega(f)$, commonly used as a quantifier of the background, is derived for an ensemble of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-05 Pablo A. Rosado

The inference of the absorption configuration of an existing room solely using acoustic signals can be challenging. This research presents two methods for estimating the room dimensions and frequency-dependent absorption coefficients using…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Yuanxin Xia , Cheol-Ho Jeong

Sound can exert forces on objects of any material and shape. This has made the contactless manipulation of objects by intense ultrasound a fascinating area of research with wide-ranging applications. While much is understood for acoustic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Melody X. Lim , Bryan VanSaders , Heinrich M. Jaeger

Continuous gravitational-wave (CW) signals such as emitted by spinning neutron stars are an important target class for current detectors. However, the enormous computational demand prohibits fully coherent broadband all-sky searches for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-29 Holger J. Pletsch

We present a novel algorithm for high resolution coherent imaging of sound sources in random scattering media using time resolved measurements of the acoustic pressure at an array of receivers. The sound waves travel a long distance between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

A multi-slit interference experiment, with which-way detectors, in the presence of environment induced decoherence, is theoretically analyzed. The effect of environment is modeled via a coupling to a bath of harmonic oscillators. Through an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Anu Venugopalan , Sandeep Mishra , Tabish Qureshi

It is proposed to create materials with a desired refraction coefficient in a bounded domain $D\subset \R^3$ by embedding many small balls with constant refraction coefficients into a given material. The number of small balls per unit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. G. Ramm

When a stationary reflecting wall acting as a perfect mirror for an atomic beam with well defined incident velocity is suddenly removed, the density profile develops during the time evolution an oscillatory pattern known as diffraction in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. del Campo , J. G. Muga , M. Kleber

We study the non-degenerate parametric amplifier for matter waves, implemented by colliding two Bose-Einstein condensates. The coherence of the amplified waves is shown by observing high contrast interference with a reference wave and by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Vogels , J. K. Chin , W. Ketterle