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Scattering through natural porous formations (by far the most ubiquitous example of disordered media) represents a formidable tool to identify effective flow and transport properties. In particular, we are interested here in the scattering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-16 Gerardo Severino , Francesco Giannino

We experimentally investigate the interplay between spatial shock waves and the degree of disorder during nonlinear optical propagation in a thermal defocusing medium. We characterize the way the shock point is affected by the amount of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Ghofraniha , S. Gentilini , V. Folli , E. DelRe , C. Conti

We consider the scattering of elastic waves by highly oscillating anisotropic periodic media with bounded support. Applying the two-scale homogenization, we first obtain a constant coefficient second-order partial differential elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Yi-Hsuan Lin , Shixu Meng

We introduce the notion of multi-dimensional chaos that applies to processes described by erratic functions of several dynamical variables. We employ this concept in the interpretation of classical and quantum scattering off a pinball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Massimo Bianchi , Maurizio Firrotta , Jacob Sonnenschein , Dorin Weissman

We introduce the mode connectivity as a measure of the number of eigenmodes of a wave equation connecting two points at a given frequency. Based on numerical simulations of scattering of electromagnetic waves in disordered media, we show…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-30 Antoine Canaguier-Durand , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

This work deals with Schr\"odinger equations with quadratic and sub-quadratic Hamiltonians perturbed by a potential. In particular we shall focus on bounded, but not necessarily smooth perturbations. We shall give a representation of such…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-19 Elena Cordero , Fabio Nicola

Reflection of particles from a disordered or chaotic medium is characterized by a scattering matrix that can be represented as a superposition of resonances. Each resonance corresponds to an eigenstate inside the medium and has a width…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-23 M. S. Kurilov , P. M. Ostrovsky

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating half-space in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an asymptotic analysis of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Adel Messaoudi , Regis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

We developed an open-source scalar wave transport model to estimate the generalized scattering matrix (S matrix) of a disordered medium in the diffusion regime. Here, the term generalization refers to the incorporation of evanescent wave…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-17 Michael Raju , Baptiste Jayet , Stefan Andersson-Engels

Phenomena involving multiple scattering, despite having attracted considerable attention in physics for decades, continue to generate unexpected and counterintuitive behaviours prompting further studies. For optical scattering, the memory…

In this paper, we focus on a new wave equation described wave propagation in the attenuation medium. In the first part of this paper, based on the time-domain space fractional wave equation, we formulate the frequency-domain equation named…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Junxiong Jia , Shigang Yu , Jigen Peng , Jinghuai Gao

This paper can be considered as a sequel of [BS14] by Bernicot and Samoyeau, where the authors have proposed a general way of deriving Strichartz estimates for the Schr{\"o}dinger equation from a dispersive property of the wave propagator.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Valentin Samoyeau

In this tutorial paper, we consider the problem of electromagnetic scattering by a bounded two-dimensional dielectric object, and discuss certain interesting properties of the scattered field. Using the electric field integral equation,…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-08 Uday K. Khankhoje , Kushal Shah

The propagation of a wave-packet in a nonlinear disordered medium exhibits interesting dynamics. Here, we present an analysis based on the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (Gross-Pitaevskii equation). This problem is directly connected to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-07 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkelstein

We study the scattering theory for the Schr\"odinger and wave equations with rough potentials in a scale of homogeneous Sobolev spaces. The first half of the paper concerns with an inverse-square potential in both of subcritical and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Haruya Mizutani

In this paper, we study the decoherence of a wave described by the solution to a Schroedinger equation with a time-dependent random potential. The random potential is assumed to have slowly decaying correlations. The main tool to analyze…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-25 Christophe Gomez

The propagation of light in a scattering medium is described as the motion of a special kind of a Brownian particle on which the fluctuating forces act only perpendicular to its velocity. This enforces strictly and dynamically the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , N. Kumar

We consider elastic reflection and transmission of electrons by a disordered system characterized by a $2N\!\times\!2N$ scattering matrix $S$. Expressing $S$ in terms of the $N$ radial parameters and of the four $N\!\times\!N$ unitary…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Jean-Louis Pichard

We model driven two-dimensional charge-density waves in random media via a modified Swift-Hohenberg equation, which includes both amplitude and phase fluctuations of the condensate. As the driving force is increased, we find that the defect…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikko Karttunen , Mikko Haataja , K. R. Elder , Martin Grant

A rigorous reduction of the many-body wave scattering problem to solving a linear algebraic system is given bypassing solving the usual system of integral equation. The limiting case of infinitely many small particles embedded into a medium…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Ramm