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We find $n(n-3)/2$-dimensional regions of the space of kinematic invariants, where all the solutions to the scattering equations (the core of the CHY formulation of amplitudes) for $n$ massless particles are real. On these regions, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-04 Freddy Cachazo , Sebastian Mizera , Guojun Zhang

This investigation is concerned with the 2D acoustic scattering problem of a plane wave propagating in a non-lossy fluid host and soliciting a linear, isotropic, macroscopically-homogeneous, lossy, flat-plane layer in which the mass density…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Armand Wirgin

We study the interplay between crossing symmetry and entanglement in $2 \to 2$ scattering within local quantum field theories that possess an $SU(N)$ global symmetry. In particular, we recast scattering amplitudes of fixed helicity as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Navin McGinnis

This work studies the direct and inverse fixed energy scattering problem for two-dimensional Schroedinger equation with rather general nonlinear index of refraction. In particular, using the Born approximation we prove that all…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Georgios Fotopoulos , Valery Serov

Let $A_q(\alpha',\alpha,k)$ be the scattering amplitude, corresponding to a local potential $q(x)$, $x\in\R^3$, $q(x)=0$ for $|x|>a$, where $a>0$ is a fixed number, $\alpha',\alpha\in S^2$ are unit vectors, $S^2$ is the unit sphere in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 A. G. Ramm

The geometry of mesoscopic inhomogeneities plays an important role in determining the macroscopic propagation behaviors of elastic waves in a heterogeneous medium. Nonequiaxed inhomogeneities can lead to anisotropic wave velocity and…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-05 Huijing He

We introduce a natural generalization of the scattering equations, which connect the space of Mandelstam invariants to that of points on ${\mathbb{CP}^1}$, to higher-dimensional projective spaces $\mathbb{CP}^{k-1}$. The standard, $k=2$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Freddy Cachazo , Nick Early , Alfredo Guevara , Sebastian Mizera

The inverse problem of diffraction theory in essence amounts to the reconstruction of the atomic positions of a solid from its diffraction image. From a mathematical perspective, this is a notoriously difficult problem, even in the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-23 Uwe Grimm , Michael Baake

We study one of multidimensional inverse scattering problems for quantum systems in a constant electric field, by utilization of the Enss-Weder time-dependent method. The main purpose of this paper is to propose some methods of sharpening…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Tadayoshi Adachi , Yuta Tsujii

We show that an inverse scattering problem for a semilinear wave equation can be solved on a manifold having an asymptotically Minkowskian infinity, that is, scattering functionals determine the topology, differentiable structure, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-17 Spyros Alexakis , Hiroshi Isozaki , Matti Lassas , Teemu Tyni

Direct and inverse scattering problem for an operator with non-local potential is solved in the paper. The method is based on the Riemann boundary value problem on a bundle of three straight lines. Description of scattering problem data is…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-01-27 V. A. Zolotarev

Many synthetic quantum systems allow particles to have dispersion relations that are neither linear nor quadratic functions. Here, we explore single-particle scattering in general spatial dimension $D\geq 1$ when the density of states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Yidan Wang , Michael J. Gullans , Xuesen Na , Seth Whitsitt , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Let $A(\beta,\alpha,k)$ be the scattering amplitude corresponding to a real-valued potential which vanishes outside of a bounded domain $D\subset \R^3$. The unit vector $\alpha$ is the direction of the incident plane wave, the unit vector…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-21 A. G. Ramm

We study an inverse source problem for the acoustic wave equation in a random waveguide. The goal is to estimate the source of waves from measurements of the acoustic pressure at a remote array of sensors. The waveguide effect is due to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-25 Sebastian Acosta , Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea

In this paper, we consider the inverse scattering problem associated with an inhomogeneous media with a conductive boundary. First, we discuss the inverse conductivity problem of reconstructing the conductivity parameter from scattering…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Isaac Harris , Andreas Kleefeld

We consider an inverse spectral theory in a domain with the cavity that is bounded by a penetrable inhomogeneous medium. An ODE system is constructed piecewise through the solutions inside and outside the cavity. The ODE system is connected…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-18 Lung-Hui Chen

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

We study one-dimensional scattering for a decaying potential with rapid periodic oscillations and strong localized singularities. In particular, we consider the Schr\"odinger equation \[ H_\epsilon \psi := (-\partial_x^2 + V_0(x) +…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Vincent Duchêne , Michael I. Weinstein

We define scattering data for the Newton equation in a potential $V\in C^2(\R^n,\R)$, $n\ge2$, that decays at infinity like $r^{-\alpha}$ for some $\alpha\in (0,1]$. We provide estimates on the scattering solutions and scattering data and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Alexandre Jollivet

We address the two-dimensional band-structure of graphene above the vacuum level in the context of discrete states immersed in the three-dimensional continuum. Scattering resonances are discovered that originate from the coupling of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 V. U. Nazarov , V. M. Silkin , E. E. Krasovskii