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The ability to design the scattering properties of electromagnetic structures is of fundamental interest in optical science and engineering. While there has been great practical success applying local optimization methods to electromagnetic…

A deep learning scheme is proposed to solve the electromagnetic (EM) scattering problems where the profile of the dielectric scatterer of interest is incomplete. As a compensation, a limited amount of scattering data is provided, which is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Ji-Yuan Wang , Xin-Yue Lou , Liang Zhang , Yun-Chuan Wang , Xiao-Min Pan

The present paper generalizes preceding papers of the author and opens a cycle of works concerning the general posing and solution in analytic form of the quantum-mechanical inverse scattering problem (for a given partial channel) in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Muzafarov

We introduce a new class of absorbing boundary conditions (ABCs) for the Helmholtz equation. The proposed ABCs are obtained by using $L$ discrete layers and the $Q_N$ Lagrange finite element in conjunction with the $N$-point Gauss-Legendre…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Koki Sagiyama

Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is a powerful method for carrying out Bayesian inference when the likelihood is computationally intractable. However, a drawback of ABC is that it is an approximate method that induces a systematic…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-09-29 Minh Ngoc Tran , Robert Kohn

In this paper, we consider the problem of scattering a swarm of mobile oblivious robots in a continuous space. We consider the fully asynchronous setting where robots may base their computation on past observations, or may be observed by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Ulysse Léchine , Sébastien Tixeuil

In this paper, an improved scatter correction with moving beam stop array (BSA) for x-ray cone beam (CB) CT is proposed. Firstly, correlation between neighboring CB views is deduced based on John's Equation. Then, correlation-based…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-10-31 Hao Yan , Xuanqin Mou , Shaojie Tang , Qiong Xu

Linear cosmological observables can be used to probe elastic scattering of dark matter (DM) with baryons. Availability of high-precision data requires a critical reassessment of any assumptions that may impact the accuracy of constraints.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Suroor Seher Gandhi , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

We study time-harmonic scattering in $\mathbb{R}^n$ ($n=2,3$) by a planar screen (a "crack" in the context of linear elasticity), assumed to be a non-empty bounded relatively open subset $\Gamma$ of the hyperplane $\mathbb{R}^{n-1}\times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-09 J. Bannister , A. Gibbs , D. P. Hewett

We present that a linear response theory in the continuum can be easily formulated with Absorbing Boundary Condition (ABC). The theory is capable of describing continuum spectra and dynamical correlations. Application of the ABC does not…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Takashi Nakatsukasa , Kazuhiro Yabana

We propose a universal strategy to realize a broadband control on arbitrary scatterers, through multiple coherent beams. By engineering the phases and amplitudes of incident beams, one can suppress the dominant scattering partial waves,…

In experimental physics, it is essential to understand electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering across EM spectrum, from radio waves to X-rays, and is pivotal in driving photonics innovations. Recent advancements have uncovered phenomena like…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-23 Deepanshu Trivedi , Arjuna Madanayake , Alex Krasnok

We propose a formulation of an absorbing boundary for a quantum particle. The formulation is based on a Feynman-type integral over trajectories that are confined by the absorbing boundary. Trajectories that reach the absorbing wall are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Marchewka , Z. Schuss

Consider scene understanding problems such as predicting where a person is probably reaching, or inferring the pose of 3D objects from depth images, or inferring the probable street crossings of pedestrians at a busy intersection. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Javier Felip , Nilesh Ahuja , David Gómez-Gutiérrez , Omesh Tickoo , Vikash Mansinghka

This paper presents an original ABC algorithm, "ABC Shadow", that can be applied to sample posterior densities that are continuously differentiable. The proposed method uses the ideas given by the auxiliary variable MH of (M\o ller and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-19 R. S. Stoica , A. Philippe , P. Gregori , J. Mateu

A growing number of generative statistical models do not permit the numerical evaluation of their likelihood functions. Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) has become a popular approach to overcome this issue, in which one simulates…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-10 Espen Bernton , Pierre E. Jacob , Mathieu Gerber , Christian P. Robert

We study the scattering of a light particle on a bound pair of heavy particles (e.g., the deuteron) within the fixed center approximation in the case of light-heavy attraction, solving the integral equation for the three-body Green's…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-12-08 Alexander E. Kudryavtsev , Vakhid A. Gani , Alexander I. Romanov

Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is a useful class of methods for Bayesian inference when the likelihood function is computationally intractable. In practice, the basic ABC algorithm may be inefficient in the presence of discrepancy…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Stefano Cabras , Maria Eugenia Castellanos Nueda , Erlis Ruli

The goal of this paper is to explore the basic Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) algorithm via the lens of information theory. ABC is a widely used algorithm in cases where the likelihood of the data is hard to work with or…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-14 Konstantinos Spiliopoulos

The likelihood-free sequential Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) algorithms, are increasingly popular inference tools for complex biological models. Such algorithms proceed by constructing a succession of probability distributions over…

Computation · Statistics 2012-10-12 Daniel Silk , Saran Filippi , Michael P. H. Stumpf