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We prove that, under the condition of validity of the Fresnel approximation, diffraction and interference for a wave traveling in the z-direction may be described in terms of the spreading in time of the transverse (x,y)-wave packet. The…

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The time fractional diffusion equation is obtained from the standard diffusion equation by replacing the first-order time derivative with a fractional derivative of order $\beta \in (0,1)$. The fundamental solution for the Cauchy problem is…

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This paper establishes explicit solutions for fractional diffusion problems on bounded domains. It also gives stochastic solutions, in terms of Markov processes time-changed by an inverse stable subordinator whose index equals the order of…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-22 Boris Baeumer , Tomasz Luks , Mark M. Meerschaert

We consider a partial data inverse problem for a time-dependent convection-diffusion equation on an admissible manifold. We prove that the time-dependent convection term and time-dependent density can be recovered uniquely modulo a known…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-03 Rohit Kumar Mishra , Anamika Purohit , Manmohan Vashisth

We study solution techniques for an evolution equation involving second order derivative in time and the spectral fractional powers, of order $s \in (0,1)$, of symmetric, coercive, linear, elliptic, second-order operators in bounded domains…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Lehel Banjai , Enrique Otarola

Refraction, interference, and diffraction serve as distinguishing features for wave-like phenomena. While they are normally associated only with a purely spatial wave-propagation pattern, analogs to interference and diffraction involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 M. Jaaskelainen , M. Lombard , U. Zuelicke

Free-space propagation can be described as a shearing of the Wigner distribution function in the spatial coordinate; this shearing is linear in paraxial approximation but assumes a more complex shape for wide-angle propagation. Integration…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. B. Almeida , V. Lakshminarayanan

This paper explores the forward and inverse problems for a fractional subdiffusion equation characterized by time-dependent diffusion and reaction coefficients. Initially, the forward problem is examined, and its unique solvability is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Ravshan Ashurov , Elbek Husanov

We explore the dynamics of two-dimensional massless Dirac-fermions within a quantum shutter approach, which involves the time-evolution of an initial cut-off plane wave. We show that the probability density is governed by an interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Elmer Cruz , Ramon Carrillo-Bastos , Jorge Villavicencio

The first part of the paper is devoted to diffraction phenomena that can be expressed by fractional Fourier transforms whose orders are real numbers. According to a scalar theory, diffraction acts on the amplitude of the electric field as…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-17 Pierre Pellat-Finet , Éric Fogret

We prove a formula expressing the gradient of the phase function of a function $f: \mathbb R^d \mapsto \mathbb C$ as a normalized first frequency moment of the Wigner distribution for fixed time. The formula holds when $f$ is the Fourier…

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In this paper, we study the mathematical imaging problem of optical diffraction tomography (ODT) for the scenario of a microscopic rigid particle rotating in a trap created, for instance, by acoustic or optical forces. Under the influence…

The equivalence principle of gravity is examined at the quantum level using the diffraction in time of matter waves in two ways. First, we consider a quasi-monochromatic beam of particles incident on a shutter which is removed at time $t =…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Juan A. Cañas , J. Bernal , A. Martín-Ruiz

Consider a particle diffusing in a confined volume which is divided into two equal regions. In one region the diffusion coefficient is twice the value of the diffusion coefficient in the other region. Will the particle spend equal…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 P. F. Tupper , Xin Yang

This paper is concerned with the mathematical analysis of the inverse random source problem for the time fractional diffusion equation, where the source is assumed to be driven by a fractional Brownian motion. Given the random source, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Xiaoli Feng , Peijun Li , Xu Wang

An inverse problem to determine a space-dependent factor in a semilinear time-fractional diffusion equation is considered. Additional data are given in the form of an integral with the Borel measure over the time. Uniqueness of the solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-14 Jaan Janno , Kairi Kasemets

In this work, an inverse problem in the fractional diffusion equation with random source is considered. Statistical moments are used of the realizations of single point observation $u(x_0,t,\omega).$ We build the representation of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Chan Liu , Jin Wen , Zhidong Zhang

In this paper, we study the inverse problem of finding a time-dependent multiplier of the right-hand side of a time-fractional one-dimensional diffusion equation with variables coefficients in the case where the usual Cauchy, homogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-15 D. K. Durdiev

We solve an inverse problem for fluid particle pair-statistics: we show that a time sequence of probability density functions (PDF's) of separations can be exactly reproduced by solving the diffusion equation with a suitable time-dependent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Gregory L. Eyink , Damien Benveniste

Characterizing distinct electron wave packets is a basic task for solid-state electron quantum optics with applications in quantum metrology and sensing. A important circuit element for this task is a non-stationary potential barrier than…

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