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Young interference is usually read as the gradual statistical accumulation of random detection events. Here we show that a time-reversed Young (TRY) geometry has a different statistical character: the fringe is not a marginal distribution…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-28 Jianming Wen

We develop a differential source-encoding protocol for local parameter estimation in a time-reversed Young interferometer, where the source plane is used not merely as a scan coordinate but as a programmable measurement basis. Two…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jianming Wen

We propose a physically explicit sensing application of a time-reversed Young (TRY) interferometer: simultaneous monitoring of beam tilt and focus drift with a fixed detector. The task is relevant to compact optical relays, free-space…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jianming Wen

We develop a general theory of null-constrained parameter estimation in a time-reversed Young (TRY) interferometer, where measurement is performed through programmable source-basis encoding with a fixed detector. We address the fundamental…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-14 Jianming Wen

There is a relation between the irreversibility of thermodynamic processes as expressed by the breaking of time-reversal symmetry, and the entropy production in such processes. We explain on an elementary mathematical level the relations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Maes , K. Netocny

The following note proves that conditional entropy of a sequence is almost time-reversal invariant, specifically they only differ by a small constant factor dependent only upon the forward and backward models that the entropies are being…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Adam Wang

We consider an inverse source problem for partially coherent light propagating in the Fresnel regime. The data is the coherence of the field measured away from the source. The reconstruction is based on a minimum residue formulation, which…

Inferring causal interactions from observed data is a challenging problem, especially in the presence of measurement noise. To alleviate the problem of spurious causality, Haufe et al. (2013) proposed to contrast measures of information…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Irene Winkler , Danny Panknin , Daniel Bartz , Klaus-Robert Müller , Stefan Haufe

We develop a compact theory of time-reversed Young (TRY) interference beyond the symmetric two-slit geometry by considering equally spaced three-slit, finite $N$-slit, and infinite periodic slit arrays. In the TRY configuration, a point…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-22 Jianming Wen

Motivated by entropic optimal transport, time reversal of diffusion processes is revisited. An integration by parts formula is derived for the carr\'e du champ of a Markov process in an abstract space. It leads to a time reversal formula…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Patrick Cattiaux , Giovanni Conforti , Ivan Gentil , Christian Léonard

Irreversibility is commonly quantified by entropy production. An external observer can estimate it through measuring an observable that is antisymmetric under time-reversal like a current. We introduce a general framework that, inter alia,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-05 Jann van der Meer , Julius Degünther , Udo Seifert

Source localization by matched-field processing (MFP) generally involves solving a number of computationally intensive partial differential equations. This paper introduces a technique that mitigates this computational workload by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-30 William Mantzel , Justin Romberg , Karim Sabra

In this Letter we show that the time reversal asymmetry of a stationary time series provides information about the entropy production of the physical mechanism generating the series, even if one ignores any detail of that mechanism. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Edgar Roldan , Juan M. R. Parrondo

This paper considers the inverse problem of recovering state-dependent source terms in a reaction-diffusion system from overposed data consisting of the values of the state variables either at a fixed finite time (census-type data) or a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Barbara Kaltenbacher , William Rundell

A standard inverse problem is to determine a source which is supported in an unknown domain $D$ from external boundary measurements. Here we consider the case of a time-dependent situation where the source is equal to unity in an unknown…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-08 William Rundell , Zhidong Zhang

The classic Young's double-slit experiment exhibits first-order interference, producing alternating bright and dark fringes modulated by the diffraction effect of the slits. In contrast, here we demonstrate that its time-reversed…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-06 Jianming Wen

In this article we study inverse source problems for time-fractional diffusion equations from \textit{a posteriori} boundary measurement. Using the memory effect of these class of equations, we solve these inverse problems for several class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-15 Jaan Janno , Yavar Kian

In this paper, we study inverse local time at 0 of one-dimensional reflected diffusions on $[0, \infty)$, and establish a comparison principle for inverse local times. Applications to Green function estimates for non-local operators are…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Zhen-Qing Chen , Lidan Wang

Inverse problems of recovering space-dependent parameters, e.g., initial condition, space-dependent source or potential coefficient, in a subdiffusion model from the terminal observation have been extensively studied in recent years.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Bangti Jin , Yavar Kian , Zhi Zhou

The experiment proposed aims to evidence and to measure the deflection of light rays induced by the source speed upon emission, and to discern it from the aberration of light rays induced by the observer speed. The method stands in creating…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sardin
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