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Surprisingly, differentiable functions are able to oscillate arbitrarily faster than their highest Fourier component would suggest. The phenomenon is called superoscillation. Recently, a practical method for calculating superoscillatory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. S. Calder , A. Kempf

Superoscillatory wave forms, i.e., waves that locally oscillate faster than their highest Fourier component, possess unusual properties that make them of great interest from quantum mechanics to signal processing. However, the more…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Eugene Tang , Lovneesh Garg , Achim Kempf

Superoscillations are band-limited functions that can oscillate faster than their fastest Fourier component. These functions (or sequences) appear in weak values in quantum mechanics and in many fields of science and technology such as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Y. Aharonov , F. Colombo , I. Sabadini , T. Shushi , D. C. Struppa , J. Tollaksen

Superoscillating functions, i.e., functions that locally oscillate at a rate faster than their highest Fourier component, are of interest for applications from fundamental physics to engineering. Here, we develop a new method which allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-14 Leilee Chojnacki , Achim Kempf

Super-oscillation is a counter-intuitive phenomenon describing localized fast variations of functions and fields that happen at frequencies higher than the highest Fourier component of their spectra. The physical implications of the effect…

Superoscillations are band-limited functions with the peculiar characteristic that they can oscillate with a frequency arbitrarily faster than their fastest Fourier component. First anticipated in different contexts, such as optics or radar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Marc Nairn

A function f is said to possess superoscillations if, in a finite region, f oscillates faster than the shortest wavelength that occurs in the Fourier transform of f. I will discuss four aspects of superoscillations: 1. Superoscillations can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Achim Kempf

In the past 50 years, quantum physicists have discovered, and experimentally demonstrated, a phenomenon which they termed superoscillations. Aharonov and his collaborators showed that superoscillations naturally arise when dealing with weak…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-11-09 Y. Aharonov , F. Colombo , I. Sabadini , D. C. Struppa , J. Tollaksen

A remarkable phenomenon of superoscillations implies that electromagnetic waves can locally oscillate in space or time faster than the fastest spatial and temporal Fourier component of the entire function. This phenomenon allows to focus…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-18 Yijie Shen , Nikitas Papasimakis , Nikolay I. Zheludev

In the last decade there has been a growing interest in superoscillations in various fields of mathematics, physics and engineering. However, while in applications as optics the local oscillatory behaviour is the important property, some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Jussi Behrndt , Fabrizio Colombo , Peter Schlosser , Daniele C. Struppa

Waves are superoscillatory where their local phase gradient exceeds the maximum wavenumber in their Fourier spectrum. We consider the superoscillatory area fraction of random optical speckle patterns. This follows from the joint probability…

Optics · Physics 2008-12-10 Mark R. Dennis , Alasdair C. Hamilton , Johannes Courtial

This book chapter gives a selective review of physical implementations and applications of superoscillations and associated phenomena. We introduce the field by reviewing simple examples of superoscillations and showing how their existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell , Nicholas Vamivakas , Ebrahim Karimi

In ordinary circumstances the highest frequency present in a wave is the highest frequency in its Fourier decomposition. It is however possible for there to be a spatial or temporal region of the wave which locally oscillates at a still…

Superoscillations have roots in various scientific disciplines, including optics, signal processing, radar theory, and quantum mechanics. This intriguing mathematical phenomenon permits specific functions to oscillate at a rate surpassing…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2024-03-12 F. Colombo , I. Sabadini , D. C. Struppa , A. Yger

Superoscillations occur when a globally band-limited function locally oscillates faster than its highest Fourier coefficient. We generalize this effect to arbitrary quantum mechanical operators as a weak value, where the preselected state…

Superoscillations, i.e., the phenomenon that a bandlimited function can temporary oscillate faster than its highest Fourier component, are being much discussed for their potential for `superresolution' beyond the diffraction limit. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Achim Kempf , Angus Prain

Band-limited functions can oscillate locally at an arbitrarily fast rate through an interference phenomenon known as superoscillations. Using an optical pulse with a superoscillatory envelope we experimentally break the temporal…

The phenomenon of superoscillation, where band limited signals can oscillate over some time period with a frequency higher than the band limit, is not only very interesting but it also seems to offer many practical applications. The first…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-02-18 Nehemia Schwartz , Moshe Schwartz

The most peculiar, specifically quantum, features of quantum mechanics --- quantum nonlocality, indeterminism, interference of probabilities, quantization, wave function collapse during measurement --- are explained on a logical-geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Yuri Orlov

We show that it is possible to construct spectrally lower bound limited functions which can oscillate locally at an arbitrarily low frequency. Such sub-oscillatory functions are complementary to super-oscillatory functions which are…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-31 Yaniv Eliezer , Alon Bahabad
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