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We study the time-reversal dynamics of a tight-binding electron in the Watts-Strogatz (WS) small-world networks. The localized initial wave packet at time $t=0$ diffuses as time proceeds until the time-reversal operation, together with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-09-13 Sung-Guk Han , Beom Jun Kim

This paper is concerned with a direct sampling method for imaging the support of a frequency-dependent source term embedded in a homogeneous and isotropic medium. The source term is given by the Fourier transform of a time-dependent source…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-12 Hongxia Guo , Guanghui Hu , Mengjie Zhao

Wave propagation in time-varying media enables unique control of energy transport by breaking energy conservation through temporal modulation. Among the resulting phenomena, temporal disorder-random fluctuations in material parameters-can…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

We consider the inverse source problem in the parabolic equation, where the unknown source possesses the semi-discrete formulation. Theoretically, we prove that the flux data from any nonempty open subset of the boundary can uniquely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Guang Lin , Zecheng Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

We present a study of sound wave propagation in a time dependent random medium and an application to imaging. The medium is modeled by small temporal and spatial random fluctuations in the wave speed and density, and it moves due to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

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

The time reversal symmetry of the wave equation allows wave refocusing back at the source. However, this symmetry does not hold in lossy media. We present a new strategy to compensate wave amplitude losses due to attenuation. The strategy…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Crystal T. Wu , Nuno M. Nobre , Emmanuel Fort , Graham D. Riley , Fumie Costen

In this paper the reflection and transmission of waves by a three-dimensional random medium are studied in a white-noise and paraxial regime. The limit system derives from the acoustic wave equations and is described by a coupled system of…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-03-04 Josselin Garnier , Knut Sølna

We study theoretically light focusing at subwavelength scale inside a disordered strongly scattering open medium. We show that broadband time reversal at a single point antenna, in conjunction with near-field interactions and multiple…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Romain Pierrat , Cédric Vandenbem , Mathias Fink , Rémi Carminati

We consider a mathematical model of thermoacoustic tomography and other multi-wave imaging techniques with variable sound speed and attenuation. We find that a Neumann series reconstruction algorithm, previously studied under the assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Andrew Homan

We consider time-reversal of electromagnetic waves in a closed, wave-chaotic system containing a discrete, passive, harmonic-generating nonlinearity. An experimental system is constructed as a time-reversal mirror, in which excitations…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-12-20 Matthew Frazier , Biniyam Taddese , Bo Xiao , Thomas Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

Time-frequency representations such as the spectrogram are commonly used to analyze signals having a time-varying distribution of spectral energy, but the spectrogram is constrained by an unfortunate tradeoff between resolution in time and…

Sound · Computer Science 2009-03-19 Kelly R. Fitz , Sean A. Fulop

This work considers a nonlinear inverse source problem in a coupled diffusion equation from the terminal observation. Theoretically, under some conditions on problem data, we build the uniqueness theorem for this inverse problem and show…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Chunlong Sun , Wenlong Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

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

In this paper, we study an inverse problem of determining the cross section of an infinitely long cylindrical-like material structure from the transverse electromagnetic scattering measurement. We establish a sharp logarithmic stability…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Hongyu Liu , Chun-Hsiang Tsou

The problem of reconstructing the spatial support of an extended radiating electric current source density in a lossy dielectric medium from transient boundary measurements of the electric fields is studied. A time reversal algorithm is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Abdul Wahab , Amer Rasheed , Tasawar Hayat , Rab Nawaz

We describe the processes obtained by time reversal of a class of stationary jump-diffusion processes that model the dynamics of genetic variation in populations subject to repeated bottlenecks. Assuming that only one lineage survives each…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-25 Martin Hutzenthaler , Jesse E. Taylor

Computational time reversal imaging can be used to locate the position of multiple scatterers in a known background medium. Here, we discuss a sparse approximation method for computational time-reversal imaging. The method is formulated…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2009-04-23 M. Andrecut

In this paper, we prove the nonlinear stability under localized perturbations of spectrally stable time-periodic source defects of reaction-diffusion systems. Consisting of a core that emits periodic wave trains to each side, source defects…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Margaret Beck , Toan T. Nguyen , Björn Sandstede , Kevin Zumbrun

Consider the scattering of the two- or three-dimensional Helmholtz equation where the source of the electric current density is assumed to be compactly supported in a ball. This paper concerns the stability analysis of the inverse source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Peijun Li , Ganghua Yuan