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Explicit Construction of Floquet-Bloch States from Arbitrary Solution Bases of the Hill Equation

Optics 2026-04-07 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

For the Hill equation describing one-dimensional periodic systems, a constructive formulation is developed for generating Floquet-Bloch states directly from arbitrary pairs of linearly independent solutions. One-dimensional photonic crystals are used as a concrete illustration. Explicit closed-form formulas map an arbitrary fundamental system to the corresponding Floquet-Bloch basis via the monodromy matrix, including the generic Jordan band-edge case, without reliance on canonically normalized solutions. The construction can be expressed directly in terms of the transfer matrix, making the residual representation freedom transparent and providing an implementation-ready framework for analytical and numerical studies of periodic systems.

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@article{arxiv.2603.07855,
  title  = {Explicit Construction of Floquet-Bloch States from Arbitrary Solution Bases of the Hill Equation},
  author = {Gregory V Morozov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07855},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (2026). Floquet theory, Hill equation, monodromy matrix, transfer matrix, Bloch waves, photonic crystals