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Analytical solutions to the wave equation in spheroidal coordinates in the short wavelength limit are considered. The asymptotic solutions for the radial function are significantly simplified, allowing scalar spheroidal wave functions to be…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-07 Martin Zeppenfeld

The spheroidal wave functions, which are the solutions to the Helmholtz equation in spheroidal coordinates, are notoriously difficult to compute. Because of this, practically no programming language comes equipped with the means to compute…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Ross Adelman , Nail A. Gumerov , Ramani Duraiswami

A new set of vector solutions to Maxwell's equations based on solutions to the wave equation in spheroidal coordinates allows laser beams to be described beyond the paraxial approximation. Using these solutions allows us to calculate the…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-13 Martin Zeppenfeld , Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

Semi-analytical methods for the modeling of guided waves in structures of constant cross-section lead to frequency-dependent polynomial eigenvalue problems for the wavenumbers and mode shapes. Solving these eigenvalue problems for a range…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Hauke Gravenkamp , Bor Plestenjak , Daniel A. Kiefer

The generalized pseudospectral method is employed for the accurate calculation of eigenvalues, densities and expectation values for the spiked harmonic oscillators. This allows \emph{nonuniform} and \emph{optimal} spatial discretization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Amlan K. Roy

We present a short overview of the recent results in the theory of diffusion and wave equations with generalised derivative operators. We give generic examples of such generalised diffusion and wave equations, which include time-fractional,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-05 Trifce Sandev , Ralf Metzler , Aleksei Chechkin

Spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics are useful in a variety of physical situations, including light scattering, nuclear modeling, signal processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, black hole perturbation theory in four and higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Marc Casals

Prolate spheroidal wave functions (PSWFs) play an important role in various areas, from physics (e.g. wave phenomena, fluid dynamics) to engineering (e.g. signal processing, filter design). One of the principal reasons for the importance of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-21 Andrei Osipov

With the aim of describing bound and continuum states for diatomic molecules, we develop and implement a spectral method that makes use of Generalized Sturmian Functions (GSF) in prolate spheroidal coordinates. In order to master all…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2021-06-02 D. M. Mitnik , F. A. Lopez , L. U. Ancarani

Spherical harmonics (SH) have been extensively used as a basis for analyzing the morphology of particles in granular mechanics. The use of SH is facilitated by mapping the particle coordinates onto a unit sphere, in practice often a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-14 Mahmoud Shaqfa , Wim M. van Rees

We investigate numerical methods for wave equations in $n+2$ spacetime dimensions, written in spherical coordinates, decomposed in spherical harmonics on $S^n$, and finite-differenced in the remaining coordinates $r$ and $t$. Such an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Carsten Gundlach , Jose M. Martin-Garcia , David Garfinkle

We propose a wave operator method to calculate eigenvalues and eigenvectors of large parameter-dependent matrices, using an adaptative active subspace. We consider a hamiltonian which depends on external adjustable or adiabatic parameters,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Arnaud Leclerc , Georges Jolicard

Motivated by the recently proposed parallel orbital-updating approach in real space method, we propose a parallel orbital-updating based plane-wave basis method for electronic structure calculations, for solving the corresponding eigenvalue…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yan Pan , Xiaoying Dai , Stefano de Gironcoli , Xin-Gao Gong , Gian-Marco Rignanese , Aihui Zhou

In addition to being the eigenfunctions of the restricted Fourier operator, the angular spheroidal wave functions of the first kind of order zero and nonnegative integer characteristic exponents are the solutions of a singular self-adjoint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Rafeh Rehan , James Bremer

This paper presents a new numerical model based on the highly nonlinear potential flow theory for simulating the propagation of water waves in variable depth. A new set of equations for estimating the surface vertical velocity is derived…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-02 Jinghua Wang

We seek to introduce a mathematical method to derive the relativistic wave equations for two-particle system. According to this method, if we define stationary wave functions as special solutions like…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Guangqing Bi , Yuekai Bi

The vertical modes of linearized equations of motion are widely used by the oceanographic community in numerous theoretical and observational contexts. However, the standard approach for solving the generalized eigenvalue problem using…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Jeffrey J. Early , M. Pascale Lelong , K. Shafer Smith

A high-frequency recovered fully discrete low-regularity integrator is constructed to approximate rough and possibly discontinuous solutions of the semilinear wave equation. The proposed method, with high-frequency recovery techniques, can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Jiachuan Cao , Buyang Li , Yanping Lin , Fangyan Yao

New non-perturbative results on the eigenvalues of the spheroidal equation are presented. The results, found using an all orders WKB analysis, include a perturbative/non-perturbative (P/NP) relation as well as the first exponential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Max Meynig

The generalized eigenvalue (GE) problems are of particular importance in various areas of science engineering and machine learning. We present a variational quantum algorithm for finding the desired generalized eigenvalue of the GE problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Jin-Min Liang , Shu-Qian Shen , Ming Li , Shao-Ming Fei