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We develop embedding formulae for all possible diffraction problems with Dirichlet scatterers on square lattices using the Wiener--Hopf perspective. The embedding formula expresses solutions for arbitrary plane-wave incidence in terms of a…

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We first review the usefulness of the Wigner distribution functions (WDF), associated with Lindblad and pre-master equations, for analyzing a host of problems in Quantum Optics where dissipation plays a major role, an arena where weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. F. O'Connell

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves by an inhomogeneous penetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is first established by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-16 Xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

The wave nature of light is revealed by diffraction from physical structures. We report a time-domain version of the classic Young's double-slit experiment: a beam of light twice gated in time produces an interference in the frequency…

Feynman's laws of quantum dynamics are concisely stated, discussed in comparison with other formulations of quantum mechanics and applied to selected problems in the physical optics of photons and massive particles as well as flavour…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 J. H. Field

We study the problem of Arnold's diffusion in an example of isochronous system by using a geometrical method known as Windows Method. Despite the simple features of this example, we show that the absence of an anisochrony term leads to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Alessandro Fortunati

A diffusion process for charge distributions in a phase space is examined. The corresponding charge moves in a force field and under an action of a random field. There are the diffusion motions for coordinates and for momenta. In our model,…

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This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of determining the time and space dependent source term of diffusion equations with constant-order time-fractional derivative in $(0,2)$. We examine two different cases. In the first one, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Yavar Kian , Eric Soccorsi , Qi Xue , Masahiro Yamamoto

We consider the problem of simulating diffusion bridges, which are diffusion processes that are conditioned to initialize and terminate at two given states. The simulation of diffusion bridges has applications in diverse scientific fields…

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This paper concerns diffraction-tomographic reconstruction of an object characterized by its scattering potential. We establish a rigorous generalization of the Fourier diffraction theorem in arbitrary dimension, giving a precise relation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Clemens Kirisits , Michael Quellmalz , Eric Setterqvist

We study solution techniques for parabolic equations with fractional diffusion and Caputo fractional time derivative, the latter being discretized and analyzed in a general Hilbert space setting. The spatial fractional diffusion is realized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-05 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Enrique Otarola , Abner J. Salgado

In this work, an inverse problem on the determination of multiple coefficients arising from the time-domain diffuse optical tomography with fluorescence (DOT-FDOT) is investigated. We simultaneously recover the distribution of background…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Zhiyuan Li , Chunlong Sun

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

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-09 Shubin Fu , Zhidong Zhang

A propagator for the one dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation with an asymmetric rectangular potential is obtained using the multiple-scattering theory approach. It allows for the consideration of the reflection and…

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We consider the problem of reconstructing the paths of a set of points over time, where, at each of a finite set of moments in time the current positions of points in space are only accessible through some small number of their X-rays. This…

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In this article we present an analytic solution of the famous problem of diffraction and interference of electrons through one and two slits (for simplicity, only the one-dimensional case is considered). In addition to exact formulas, we…

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First, we have generalized the notion of Franhoufer diffraction of temporal coherent light from a single slit to the case of arbitrary n-slits. The diffraction pattern is investigated for different values of recently [19] introduced…

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There are several inequivalent proposals in the literature for how to compute the probability distribution of the time that a detector registers for the arrival of a quantum particle. For two of these proposals, based on absorbing boundary…

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In Optics it is common to split up the formal analysis of diffraction according to two convenient approximations, in the near and far fields (also known as the Fresnel and Fraunhofer regimes, respectively). Within this scenario, geometrical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Almudena García-Sánchez , Ángel S. Sanz