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Spatiotemporal metasurfaces offer unique opportunities for wave manipulation, however, their practical realization is often constrained by the requirement for in-plane spatial modulation, which necessitates a large number of time-varying…

We extend our previous work on applying CMB techniques to the mapping of gravitational-wave backgrounds to backgrounds which have non-GR polarisations. Our analysis and results are presented in the context of pulsar-timing array…

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Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) often struggle to train reliably on stiff and oscillatory dynamical systems due to poor optimization conditioning. While prior work has emphasized representational remedies such as spectral…

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We propose an efficient and generalizable physics-informed neural network (PINN) framework for computing traveling wave solutions of $n$-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations with various reaction and diffusion coefficients. By applying…

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Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a flexible framework for solving partial differential equations, but their performance on interface problems remains challenging because continuity and flux conditions are typically…

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We study one of the interesting properties of the electromagnetic wave propagation in the curved Schwarzschild background spacetime in the framework of general relativity (GR). The electromagnetic wave equation has been derived from vacuum…

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We propose a sparse grids based adaptive noise reduction strategy for electrostatic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. Our approach is based on the key idea of relying on sparse grids instead of a regular grid in order to increase the…

The GRadient Ascent Pulse Engineering (GRAPE) method is widely used for optimization in quantum control. GRAPE is gradient search method based on exact expressions for gradient of the control objective. It has been applied to coherently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Vadim Petruhanov , Alexander Pechen

An efficient multigrid framework is developed for the time marching of steady-state compressible flows with a spatially high-order ($p$-order polynomial) modal discontinuous Galerkin method. The core algorithm that based on a global…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Shu-Jie Li

Light can be confined transversely and delivered axially in a waveguide. However, waveguides are lossy static structures whose modal characteristics are fundamentally determined by the boundary conditions, and thus cannot be readily changed…

This paper proposes the use of a LoRa like chirp spread spectrum physical layer as the basis for a new Power Line Communication modulation scheme suited for low-bandwidth communication. It is shown that robust communication can be…

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Unidirectional wave propagation has emerged as a key concept in the dynamics of non-reciprocal mechanical and acoustic metamaterials. This work investigates two fundamentally distinct strategies for achieving directional wave propagation in…

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A new impulse response (IR) dataset called "MeshRIR" is introduced. Currently available datasets usually include IRs at an array of microphones from several source positions under various room conditions, which are basically designed for…

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Time-varying media, characterized by dynamic or spacetime-modulated constitutive parameters such as permittivity and permeability, have recently emerged as a transformative paradigm for advanced wave control, transcending the constraints…

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We propose a mathematical model for describing propagating confined modes in domain walls of intermediate angle between domains. The proposed model is derived from the linearised Bloch equations of motion and after reasonable assumptions,…

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Previous studies on spacetime index of refraction are mostly restricted to the static spacetimes. In this study we fill this gap by introducing the refractive index for full stationary spacetimes, employing three different approaches. These…

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Representing large-scale motions and topological changes in the finite volume (FV) framework, while at the same time preserving the accuracy of the numerical solution, is difficult. In this paper, we present a robust, highly efficient…

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A framework is presented to design multirate time stepping algorithms for two dissipative models with coupling across a physical interface. The coupling takes the form of boundary conditions imposed on the interface, relating the solution…

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