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We study the time delay of reflected and transmitted waves in 1D disordered media with high transmission. Highly transparent and translucent random media are found in nature or can be synthetically produced. We perform numerical simulations…

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The formation of extreme localizations in nonlinear dispersive media can be explained and described within the framework of nonlinear evolution equations, such as the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS). Within the class of exact NLS…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-01 Amin Chabchoub , Mathias Fink

The transverse coherence functions (TCFs) of phase and amplitude fluctuations of a seismic wave are powerful to estimate the spatial distribution, length scales, and strength of random heterogeneities. However, TCFs have been formulated for…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Hao Hu , Yingcai Zheng

Laminated media with material properties modulated in space and time in the form of travelling waves have long been known to exhibit non-reciprocity. However, when using the method of low frequency homogenisation, it was so far only…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Marie Touboul , Bruno Lombard , Raphaël Assier , Sébastien Guenneau , Richard V Craster

Space-time modulation adds another powerful degree of freedom to the manipulation of classical wave systems. It opens the door for complex control of wave behavior beyond the reach of stationary systems, such as nonreciprocal wave transport…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Junfei Li , Xiaohui Zhu , Chen Shen , Xiuyuan Peng , Steven A. Cummer

Thermo- and photo- acoustic tomography require reconstructing initial acoustic pressure in a body from time series of pressure measured on a surface surrounding the body. For the classical case of free space wave propagation, various…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-23 B. Holman , L. Kunyansky

We pursue a low-wavenumber, second-order homogenized solution of the time-harmonic wave equation at both low and high frequency in periodic media with a source term whose frequency resides inside a band gap. Considering the wave motion in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Shixu Meng , Othman Oudghiri-Idrissi , Bojan B. Guzina

Dynamic modulation of material properties in space and time enables powerful control over wave propagation, yet existing theories largely rely on idealized, nondispersive models. In realistic media, frequency dispersion can strongly reshape…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

We study the propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves in randomly heterogeneous bianisotropic media with dissipative properties. For that purpose we consider randomly fluctuating optical responses of such media with correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jean-Luc Akian , Éric Savin

This paper concerns with the time-reversal characteristics of intrinsic normal diffusion in quantum systems. Time-reversible properties are quantified by the time-reversal test; the system evolved in the forward direction for a certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hiroaki S. Yamada , Kensuke S. Ikeda

In this paper, we revisit one-channel time reversal (TR) experiments through multiple scattering media in the framework of the self-consistent multiple scattering theory. The hyper resolution and the self-averaging property are retrieved.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Julien P De Rosny , Arnaud Tourin , Arnaud Derode , Bart Van Tiggelen , Mathias Fink

Using time domain measurements, we assess the feasibility of time-reversal technique in ultra-wideband (UWB) communication. A typical indoor propagation channel is selected for the exploration. The channel response between receive and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-10-09 Ali Khaleghi , Ghaïs El Zein , Ijaz Haider Naqvi

An imaging system is proposed for matter-wave functions that is based on producing a quadratic phase modulation on the wavefunction of a charged particle, analogous to that produced by a space or time lens. The modulation is produced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Brian H. Kolner

We review recent research on the transport properties of classical waves through chaotic systems with special emphasis on microwaves and sound waves. Inasmuch as these experiments use antennas or transducers to couple waves into or out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 U. Kuhl , H. -J. Stoeckmann , R. Weaver

We investigate non-classical effects such as fractional revivals, squeezing and higher-order squeezing of photon-added coherent states propagating through a Kerr-like medium.The Wigner functions corresponding to these states at the instants…

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Due to availability of large spectrum chunks, the sub-TeraHertz (subTHz) frequency band can support Ultra-WideBand (UWB) wireless communications, paving the way for unprecedented increase in the wireless network capacity. This fact is…

An instantaneous time mirror (ITM) is an interesting approach to manipulate wave propagation from the time boundaries. In the time domain, the reversed wave is previously proven to be the temporal derivative of the original pattern. Here,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Danming Peng , Yiyang Fan , Ruochen Liu , Xiasheng Guo , Sihui Wang

This paper investigates inverse source problems for time-dependent electromagnetic waves governed by Maxwell's equations. After applying the Fourier transform with respect to time, the problem leads to a frequency-domain electromagnetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Fenglin Sun , Hongxia Guo

Although the laws of classical physics are deterministic, thermodynamics gives rise to an arrow of time through irreversible processes. In quantum mechanics the unitary nature of the time evolution makes it intrinsically reversible, however…

The detection of continuous gravitational-wave signals requires to account for the motion of the detector with respect to the solar system barycenter in the data analysis. In order to search efficiently for such signals by means of the fast…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrzej Krolak , Massimo Tinto