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The Helmholtz equation in one dimension, which describes the propagation of electromagnetic waves in effectively one-dimensional systems, is equivalent to the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The fact that the potential term…

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We consider 6 types of scaling limits for the Wigner-Moyal equation of the parabolic waves in random media, the limiting cases of which include the radiative transfer limit, the diffusion limit and the white-noise limit. We show under…

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A reformulation of Maxwell equations for an inhomogeneous, anisotropic, passive and non-dispersive medium results in a quantum-like Dirac equation that admits unitary time evolution. In contrast to other approaches, there is no a-priori…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Efstratios Koukoutsis , Kyriakos Hizanidis , Abhay K. Ram , George Vahala

The study of the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a linear isotropic medium with planar symmetry can be reduced to that of their TE and TM modes. For situations where the medium consists of parallel homogeneous slabs, one may use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

Starting from a Langevin description of active particles that move with constant speed in infinite two-dimensional space and its corresponding Fokker-Planck equation, we develop a systematic method that allows us to obtain the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-06 Francisco J. Sevilla , Luis A. Gomez Nava

This work is devoted to the asymptotic analysis of high frequency wave propagation in random media with long-range dependence. We are interested in two asymptotic regimes, that we investigate simultaneously: the paraxial approximation,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Christophe Gomez , Olivier Pinaud

This paper studies highly oscillatory solutions to a class of systems of semilinear hyperbolic equations with a small parameter, in a setting that includes Klein--Gordon equations and the Maxwell--Lorentz system. The interest here is in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Julian Baumstark , Tobias Jahnke , Christian Lubich

We deduce the equations that describe how polarized radiation is Comptonized by a hot electron gas. Low frequencies are considered, and the equations are expanded to second order in electron velocities. Induced scattering terms are included…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frode K. Hansen , Per B. Lilje

Diffusion in inhomogeneous materials can be described by both the Fick and Fokker--Planck diffusion equations. Here, we study a mixed Fick and Fokker-Planck diffusion problem with coefficients rapidly oscillating both in space and time. We…

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We report an experimental study of group-velocity dispersion effect on an entangled two-photon wavepacket, generated via spontaneous parametric down-conversion and propagating through a dispersive medium. Even in the case of using CW laser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Alejandra Valencia , Maria V. Chekhova , Alexei Trifonov , Yanhua Shih

Motivated by previous investigations on the radiative effects of the electric dipoles embedded in structured cavities, localization of electromagnetic waves in two dimensions is studied {\it ab initio} for a system consisting of many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhen Ye , Sheng Li , Xin Sub

We study two-dimensional wave propagation in materials whose properties vary periodically in one direction only. High order homogenization is carried out to derive a dispersive effective medium approximation. One-dimensional materials with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Manuel Quezada de Luna , David I. Ketcheson

Propagation of extremely short electromagnetic pulses in a homogeneous doubly-resonant medium is considered in the framework of the total Maxwell-Duffing-Lorentz model, where the Duffing oscillators (anharmonic oscillators with cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-12-31 Y. Frenkel , I. Gabitov , A. Maimistov , V. Roytburd

The nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT), a powerful tool in soliton theory and exactly solvable models, is a method for solving integrable partial differential equations governing wave propagation in certain nonlinear media. The NFT…

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Two-point fermionic propagators in strongly-correlated media are considered with an emphasis on the dynamical interaction kernels of their equations of motion (EOM). With the many-body Hamiltonian confined by a two-body interaction, the…

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In this work, we study the propagation and absorption of plasma waves in the chiral Maxwell-Carroll-Field-Jackiw (MCJF) electrodynamics. The Maxwell equations are rewritten for a cold, uniform, and collisionless fluid plasma model, allowing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Filipe S. Ribeiro , Pedro D. S. Silva , Manoel M. Ferreira

Spatially dispersive (also known as non-local) electromagnetic media are considered where the parameters defining the permittivity relation vary periodically. Maxwell's equations give rise to a difference equation corresponding to the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 Jonathan Gratus , Matthew McCormack

The main objective of this Report is to formulate the general theoretical framework of electromagnetic scattering by discrete random media rooted in the Maxwell-Lorentz electromagnetics and discuss its immediate analytical and numerical…

Understanding radiative transfer in random media like micro/nanoporous and particulate materials, allows people to manipulate the scattering and absorption of radiation, as well as opens new possibilities in applications such as imaging…

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