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There has been an increasing interest in developing efficient immersed boundary method (IBM) based on Cartesian grids, recently in the context of high-order methods. IBM based on volume penalization is a robust and easy to implement method…
We propose a novel numerical algorithm for computing the electronic structure related eigenvalue problem of incommensurate systems. Unlike the conventional practice that approximates the system by a large commensurate supercell, our…
Beamforming in plane-wave imaging (PWI) is an essential step in creating images with optimal quality. Adaptive methods estimate the apodization weights from echo traces acquired by several transducer elements. Herein, we formulate…
A LightGBM-Incorporated absorbing boundary condition (ABC) computation approach for the wave-equation-based the radial point interpolation meshless (RPIM) method is proposed to simulate wave propagation in open space during the computation…
Plane-wave Trefftz methods (PWB) for the Helmholtz equation offer significant advantages over standard discretization approaches whose implementation employs more general polynomial basis functions. A disadvantage of these methods is the…
A billiard is a dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflection from a boundary. For billiards in non-convex areas bounded by segments of confocal quadrics are studied. The topology…
The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is a popular numerical approach to impose boundary conditions without relying on body-fitted grids, thus reducing the costly effort of mesh generation. To obtain enhanced accuracy, IBM can be combined with…
We compare three finite element based methods designed for two-sided bounds of eigenvalues of symmetric elliptic second order operators. The first method is known as the Lehmann-Goerisch method. The second method is based on…
Let $(M, g)$ be a Riemannian manifold with boundary, where $g$ is a non-trapping metric. Let $SM$ be the space of the spherical tangent to $M$ bundle, and $v^g$ the geodesic vector field on $SM$. We study the scattering maps $C_{v^g}:…
In "Playing Pool with $\pi$", Galperin invented an extraordinary method to learn the digits of $\pi$ by counting the collisions of billiard balls. Here I demonstrate an exact isomorphism between Galperin's bouncing billiards and Grover's…
Scattering of electromagnetic waves in billiard-like systems has become a standard experimental tool of studying properties associated with Quantum Chaos. Random Matrix Theory (RMT) describing statistics of eigenfrequencies and associated…
Quantum billiards provide an excellent forum for the analysis of quantum chaos. Toward this end, we consider quantum billiards with time-varying surfaces, which provide an important example of quantum chaos that does not require the…
We investigate chaotic scattering on an attractive step potential with a quadrupolar deformation. The phase space features of the bound billiard are studied by using the notion of symmetry lines to find periodic orbits. We show that the…
We introduce and study several random combinatorial billiard trajectories. Such a system, which depends on a fixed parameter $p\in(0,1)$, models a beam of light that travels in a Euclidean space, occasionally randomly reflecting off of a…
A quantum eigensolver is designed under a multi-layer cluster mean-field (CMF) algorithm by partitioning a quantum system into spatially-separated clusters. For each cluster, a reduced Hamiltonian is obtained after a partial average over…
We apply the notion of asymptotic iteration method (AIM) to determine eigenvalues of the bosonic Hamiltonians that include a wide class of quantum optical models. We consider solutions of the Hamiltonians, which are even polynomials of the…
This work extends, to moving geometries, the immersed boundary method based on volume penalization and selective frequency damping approach [J. Kou, E. Ferrer, A combined volume penalization/selective frequency damping approach for immersed…
In the present work we explore the concept of solitary wave billiards. I.e., instead of a point particle, we examine a solitary wave in an enclosed region and explore its collision with the boundaries and the resulting trajectories in cases…
We establish a duality between the quantum wave vector spectrum and the eigenmodes of the classical Liouvillian dynamics for integrable billiards. Signatures of the classical eigenmodes appear as peaks in the correlation function of the…
In this note we further develop the idea of using a ``black box'' point of view (see our previous work) to study eigenfunctions for billiards which have rectangular components: they include the Bunimovich billiard, the Sinai billiard, and…