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By employing T-matrix approach, we investigate a nonmagnetic impurity located on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators, where the time reversal symmetry is preserved. It is shown that the images of the local density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Degang Zhang , C. S. Ting

We present a methodology to perform inverse analysis on reconfigurable topological insulators for flexural waves in plate-like structures. First the unit cell topology of a phononic plate is designed, which offers two-fold degeneracy in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Chuong Nguyen , S. S. Nanthakumar , Xiaoying Zhuang , Ludovic Chamoin , Yabin Jin , Timon Rabczuk

The quasiparticle interference of the spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy has been investigated for the surface states of the large gap topological insulator Bi$_2$Te$_3$ through the T-matrix formalism. Both the scalar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 Wei-Cheng Lee , Congjun Wu , Daniel P. Arovas , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We consider the wave scattering and inverse scattering in an inhomogeneous medium embedded a homogeneous droplet with a small size, which is modeled by a constant mass density and a small bulk modulus. Based on the Lippmann-Schwinger…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Zhe Wang , Ahcene Ghandriche , Jijun Liu

Shortly after the discovery of topological band insulators, topological Kondo insulators (TKIs) have also been theoretically predicted. The latter has ignited revival interest in the properties of Kondo insulators. Currently, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-05 C. -C. Joseph Wang , Jean-Pierre Julien , A. V. Balatsky , Jian-Xin Zhu

In electromagnetic inverse scattering, the goal is to reconstruct object permittivity using scattered waves. While deep learning has shown promise as an alternative to iterative solvers, it is primarily used in supervised frameworks which…

This paper concerns a boundary integral formulation for the two-dimensional massive Dirac equation. The mass term is assumed to jump across a one-dimensional interface, which models a transition between two insulating materials. This jump…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Guillaume Bal , Jeremy Hoskins , Solomon Quinn , Manas Rachh

We consider massless Dirac operators on the real line with compactly supported potentials. We solve two inverse problems (including characterization): in terms of zeros of reflection coefficient and in terms of poles of reflection…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Evgeny Korotyaev , Dmitrii Mokeev

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem of a random potential associated with the polyharmonic wave equation in two and three dimensions. The random potential is represented as a centered complex-valued generalized microlocally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jianliang Li , Peijun Li , Xu Wang , Guanlin Yang

We use modified scattering theory to demonstrate that small-data solutions to the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on rescaled waveguide manifolds, $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{T}^d$ for $d\geq 2$, demonstrate boundedness of Sobolev…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Bobby Wilson , Xueying Yu

We consider the small-angle multiple neutron scattering and a possibility of its model-free analysis by the inverse problem method. We show that the ill-defined problem is essentially regularized by use of a planar detector without a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 D. N. Aristov

In this paper, we establish two sharp quantitative results for the direct and inverse time-harmonic acoustic wave scattering. The first one is concerned with the recovery of the support of an inhomogeneous medium, independent of its…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-07 Emilia L. K. Blåsten , Hongyu Liu

Topological phases play a crucial role in the fundamental physics of light-matter interaction and emerging applications of quantum technologies. However, the topological band theory of waveguide QED systems is known to break down, because…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-08 Yongguan Ke , Jiaxuan Huang , Wenjie Liu , Yuri Kivshar , Chaohong Lee

We study the scattering of edge states of 2D topological insulator (TI) in the uniform external magnetic field due to edge imperfections, common in realistic 2D TI samples. The external magnetic field breaks time reversal (TR) symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 A. S. Dotdaev , Ya. I. Rodionov , A. V. Rozhkov , P. D. Grigoriev

Three papers describing different methods to solve the inverse scattering problem of the reconstruction of the shape and/or impedance of an obstacle have been chosen for analysis. This literature review consists of an evaluation of these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Sarika Karanth , Shobha M. Erappa

Problem for a cubic string having the shape of a step is studied. It is proved that here we have two scattering problems: the direct one and its dual. The direct problem describes scattering of the waves coming from ``$+\infty$'', and its…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Vladimir A. Zolotarev

The motivation of this work is an inverse problem for the acoustic wave equation, where an array of sensors probes an unknown medium with pulses and measures the scattered waves. The goal of the inversion is to determine from these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Liliana Borcea , Vladimir Druskin , Alexander V. Mamonov , Mikhail Zaslavsky

We show that there exist two dimensional (2D) time reversal invariant fractionalized insulators with the property that both their boundary with the vacuum and their boundary with a topological insulator can be fully gapped without breaking…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-21 Chenjie Wang , Michael Levin

The initial value problem for the general coupled Hirota system with nonzero boundary conditions at infinity is solved by reporting a rigorous theory of the inverse scattering transform. With the help of a suitable uniformization variable,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Xiu-Bin Wang , Shou-Fu Tian

It is proved that if the scattering amplitudes at a fixed wavenumber for two obstacles from a certain large class of obstacles differ a little, than the obstacles differ a little. Error estimate is given. It is proved that there is an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm