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We consider the time dependent Maxwell system in the sense of distributions in the context of temporal interfaces. Just as with spatial interfaces, electromagnetic waves at temporal interfaces scatter and create a transmitted and reflected…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Cristian E. Gutiérrez , Eric Stachura

This work will incorporate a few related tools for addressing the conceptual difficulties arising from sewing together classical and quantum mechanics: deterministic operators, weak measurements and post-selection. Weak Measurement, based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Eliahu Cohen , Yakir Aharonov

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

The time-reversal mirror (TRM) of acoustic waves is used as a focusing technique that is robust against disorder and chaos. The propagation of an ultrasonic pulse from the focal point is detected and recorded by a surrounding array of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-16 Hernan L. Calvo , Horacio M. Pastawski

Thanks to a Multiple Scattering Theory algorithm, we present a way to focus energy at the deep subwavelength scale, from the far-field, inside a cubic disordered bubble cloud by using broadband Time Reversal (TR). We show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-26 Maxime Lanoy , Romain Pierrat , Fabrice Lemoult , Mathias Fink , Valentin Leroy , Arnaud Tourin

We study the classical limit of quantum mechanics on graphs by introducing a Wigner function for graphs. The classical dynamics is compared to the quantum dynamics obtained from the propagator. In particular we consider extended open graphs…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Felipe Barra , Pierre Gaspard

Time reversal (TR) focusing of ultrasound in granular packings is experimentally investigated. Pulsed elastic waves transmitted from a compressional or shear transducer source are measured by a TR mirror, reversed in time and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-18 Maxime Harazi , Yougu Yang , Mathias Fink , Arnaud Tourin , Xiaoping Jia

In digital signal processing time-frequency transforms are used to analyze time-varying signals with respect to their spectral contents over time. Apart from the commonly used short-time Fourier transform, other methods exist in literature,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Stefan Scholl

We study an inverse problem for the wave equation where localized wave sources in random scattering media are to be determined from time resolved measurements of the waves at an array of receivers. The sources are far from the array, so the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

This work investigates the effects of time-varying media, where optical properties change over time, on electromagnetic wave propagation, focusing on plane waves and free-electron evanescent waves. We introduce a switching parameter,…

We derive time reflection and transmission coefficients for 1D acoustic waves encountering a time boundary at which the properties of the medium change instantaneously. The time reflection and transmission coefficients are shown to be…

We investigate a classical phase-space approach of matter-wave propagation based on the Truncated Wigner Equation (TWE). We show that such description is suitable for ideal matter waves in quadratic time-dependent confinement as well as for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 François Impens , David Guéry-Odelin

Control over the interaction of waves with ultrafast time-varying materials - those that change on a time-scale commensurate with the wave period - holds much promise for developing a raft of new technologies. Time-varying materials…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 I. R. Hooper , D. B. Phillips , S. A. R. Horsley

Time reversal methods are widely used to achieve wave focusing in acoustics and electromagnetics. A typical time reversal experiment requires that a transmitter be initially present at the target focusing point, which limits the application…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-11 Bo Xiao , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

We emphasize the fact the evolution of quantum states in the inverted oscillator (IO) is reduced to classical equations of motion, stressing that the corresponding tunnelling and reflexion coefficients addressed in the literature are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Carla M. Q. Flores

The time reversal and irreversibility in conventional quantum mechanics are compared with those of the rigged Hilbert space quantum mechanics. We discuss the time evolution of Gamow and Gamow-Jordan vectors and show that the rigged Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-15 A. Bohm , P. Kielanowski

Time-reflection is a uniform inversion of the temporal evolution of a signal, which arises when an abrupt change in the properties of the host material occurs uniformly in space. At such a time-interface, a portion of the input signal is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hady Moussa , Gengyu Xu , Shixiong Yin , Emanuele Galiffi , Younes Radi , Andrea Alù

A photon-like wavepacket based on novel solutions of Maxwell's equations is proposed. It is believed to be the first 'classical' model that contains so many of the accepted quantum features. In this new work, novel solutions to Maxwell's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John E. Carroll

We study in this work the so-called "instantaneous time mirrors" in the context of surface plasmons. The latter are associated with high frequency waves at the surface of a conducting sheet. Instantaneous time mirrors were introduced by M.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Olivier Pinaud

This paper considers a distributed wave-based sensing system that probes a scene consisting of multiple interacting idealized targets. Each sensor is a collocated transmit-receive pair that is capable of transmitting arbitrary wideband…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-27 Jerry Kim , Margaret Cheney , Eric Mokole