Scaling properties of superoscillations and the extension to periodic signals

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/33/335202zbMATH Open1347.81040arXiv1512.00109OpenAlexW3104380042MaRDI QIDQ2822100FDOQ2822100

Authors: Eugene Tang, Lovneesh Garg, Achim Kempf 

Publication date: 27 September 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 pronounced the desired superoscillatory behavior is to be, the more difficult it becomes to produce, or even only calculate, such highly fine-tuned wave forms in practice. Here, we investigate how this sensitivity to preparation errors scales for a method for constructing superoscillatory functions which is optimal in the sense that it minimizes the energetic expense. We thereby also arrive at very accurate approximations of functions which are so highly superoscillatory that they cannot be calculated numerically. We then investigate to what extent the scaling and sensitivity results for superoscillatory functions on the real line extend to the experimentally important case of superoscillatory functions that are periodic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.00109

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical approximation and analysisquantum physicsFourier opticssuperoscillations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42A38) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

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