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Atomic transitions with orthogonal dipole moments can be made to interfere with each other by the use of an anisotropic environment. Here we describe, provide and apply a computational toolbox capable of algorithmically designing…

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We construct Two-Point Flux Approximation (TPFA) finite volume schemes to solve the quadratic optimal transport problem in its dynamic form, namely the problem originally introduced by Benamou and Brenier. We show numerically that these…

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We develop a mathematical framework allowing to study anomalous transport in homogeneous solids. The main tools characterizing the anomalous transport properties are spectral and diffusion exponents associated to the covariant Hamiltonians…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 H. Schulz-Baldes , J. Bellissard

In several applications, including imaging of deformable objects while in motion, simultaneous localization and mapping, and unlabeled sensing, we encounter the problem of recovering a signal that is measured subject to unknown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yanting Ma , Petros T. Boufounos , Hassan Mansour , Shuchin Aeron

In this work, we solve a discrete optimal transport problem in a nonuniform environment. To solve the optimal transport problem, we build the cost matrix and then use classical solvers for discrete optimal transport. The challenge is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Luca Dieci , Daniyar Omarov

As an increasingly powerful technique in integrated photonics, inverse design uses optimization algorithms to automatically create compact, high-performance photonic structures, often yielding non-intuitive layouts far more compact than…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Junho Park , Taehan Kim , Mohammad Ali , Di Liang

In the last decades nanostructures have unlocked myriads of functionalities in nanophotonics by engineering light-matter interaction beyond what is possible with conventional bulk optics. The space of parameters available for design is…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-31 Johannes Gedeon , Emadeldeen Hassan , Antonio Calà Lesina

This work establishes a framework for solving inverse boundary problems with the geodesic based quadratic Wasserstein distance ($W_{2}$). A general form of the Fr\'echet gradient is systematically derived by optimal transportation (OT)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Gang Bao , Yixuan Zhang

We propose a volumetric formulation for computing the Optimal Transport problem defined on surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$, found in disciplines like optics, computer graphics, and computational methodologies. Instead of directly tackling the…

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The paper considers existence results of solution for a linear coupled system of Boltzmann transport equations and related inverse problem. The system models the evolution of three species of particles, photons, electrons and positrons.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Jouko Tervo

We give a short overview of advantages and drawbacks of the classical formulation of minimum cost network flow problems and solution techniques, to motivate a reformulation of classical static minimum cost network flow problems as optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Onur Tanil Doganay , Kathrin Klamroth , Bruno Lang , Michael Stiglmayr , Claudia Totzeck

Many research has been conducted about quadratic programming and inverse optimization. In this paper we present the combination aspect of these subjects, applying on transportation problem. First, we obtain the inverse form of quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Afrooz Jalilzadeh , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani

Structured optical waveforms are emerging as powerful control fields for the next generation of complex photonic and electromagnetic systems, where the temporal structure of light can determine the ultimate performance of scientific…

Inverse design, where we seek to design input variables in order to optimize an underlying objective function, is an important problem that arises across fields such as mechanical engineering to aerospace engineering. Inverse design is…

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Designing freeform surfaces to control light based on real-world illumination patterns is challenging, as existing caustic lens designs often assume oversimplified point or parallel light sources. We propose representing surface light…

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We systematically present a new approach for studying the coupled linear transport of holographic systems. In this approach, the set of equations for the linear perturbations can be reduced to a first-order nonlinear ordinary differential…

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Numerical quantum transport calculations are commonly based on a tight-binding formulation. A wide class of quantum transport algorithms requires the tight-binding Hamiltonian to be in the form of a block-tridiagonal matrix. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Michael Wimmer , Klaus Richter

The optimal (Monge-Kantorovich) transportation problem is discussed from several points of view. The Lagrangian formulation extends the action of the {\em Lagrangian} $L(v,x,t)$ from the set of orbits in $\R^n$ to a set of measure-valued…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gershon Wolansky

Inverse design problems are common in engineering and materials science. The forward direction, i.e., computing output quantities from design parameters, typically requires running a numerical simulation, such as a FEM, as an intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jens U. Kreber , Christian Weißenfels , Joerg Stueckler

Recent advances in the field of adiabatic quantum computing and the closely related field of quantum annealers has centered around using more advanced and novel Hamiltonian representations to solve optimization problems. One of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Hannes Leipold , Federico M. Spedalieri