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The analysis of wave patterns in a structure which possesses periodicity in the spatial and temporal dimensions is presented. The topic of imperfect chiral interfaces is also considered. Although causality is fundamental for physical…

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Beams of light with a large topological charge significantly change their spatial structure when they are focused strongly. Physically, it can be explained by an emerging electromagnetic field component in the direction of propagation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-08 Mario Krenn , Anton Zeilinger

We study a 2D scalar harmonic wave transmission problem between a classical dielectric and a medium with a real-valued negative permittivity/permeability which models a metal at optical frequency or an ideal negative metamaterial. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-11-27 Lucas Chesnel , Xavier Claeys , Sergey A. Nazarov

Multiple potential wells for massive test particles, allowing distinct families of bound orbits to coexist, are a characteristic feature of certain exotic compact objects beyond general relativity. Taking the dyonic black hole as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Chao-Hui Wang , Shao-Wen Wei , Tao Zhu , Yu-Xiao Liu

We study the diffusion processes of a real scalar field in the presence of the distorsion field induced by a chiral topological defect. The defect modifies the usual Euclidean background geometry into a non-diagonal Riemann-Cartan geometry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Andy Manapany , Leila Moueddene , Bertrand Berche , Sébastien Fumeron

Boundary conditions and defects of any codimension are natural parts of any quantum field theory. Surface defects in three-dimensional topological field theories of Turaev-Reshetikhin type have applications to two-dimensional conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Jurgen Fuchs , Christoph Schweigert

Predictive theory to geometrically engineer devices and materials in continuum systems to have desired topological-like effects is developed here by bridging the gap between quantum and continuum mechanical descriptions. A platonic crystal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Mehul Makwana , Richard Craster

The most general gauge-invariant marginal deformation of four-dimensional abelian BF-type topological field theory is studied. It is shown that the deformed quantum field theory is topological and that its observables compute, in addition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-21 Richard J. Szabo

We investigate how exotic differential structures may reveal themselves in particle physics. The analysis is based on the A. Connes' construction of the standard model. It is shown that, if one of the copies of the spacetime manifold is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Sladkowski

All existing experimental results are currently interpreted using classical geometry. However, there are theoretical reasons to suspect that at a deeper level, geometry emerges as an approximate macroscopic behavior of a quantum system at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Craig Hogan

The language and methods of algebraic topology, particularly homotopy theory, have been extensively used in the study of the identification, the classification and the evolution of defects. Topological methods provide the means for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. D. M. Kavoussanaki

Maxwell Electrodynamics can be described either in Minkowski space-time or in a dynamically equivalent way in a curved geometry constructed in terms of the electromagnetic field. For this the field must have a superior bound limited by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-18 M. Novello , C. E. L. Ducap

The plastic deformation of crystalline materials can be understood by considering their structural defects such as disclinations and dislocations. Although glasses are also solids, their structure resembles closely the one of a liquid and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-06-21 Zhen Wei Wu , Yixiao Chen , Wei-Hua Wang , Walter Kob , Limei Xu

The problem about geometric correspondence of Dirac particle and contain quality item of Yang-Mills equation has always not been solved.This paper introduced the hyperbolic imaginary unit in Minkowski space, established a classes of Dirac…

General Physics · Physics 2011-03-23 Xuegang Yu

As a point of departure it is suggested that Quantum Cosmology is a topological concept independent from metrical constraints. Methods of continuous topological evolution and topological thermodynamics are used to construct a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Kiehn

A study of fundamental geometrical interactions shows that the Dirac electron can be represented as a conformal wave. A Riemannian space is used, having coordinates that transform locally as spinors. The wave function becomes a gradient.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel C. Galehouse

We characterise the particlelike kinematics of charge-carrying topological defects in nematic media via a geometric field theory. This differs from the theory of electromagnetism, with which it is often compared, due to the absence of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 Joseph Pollard , Richard G. Morris

A model aimed at understanding quantum gravity in terms of Birkhoff's approach is discussed. The geometry of this model is constructed by using a winding map of Minkowski space into a $\mathbb{R}^{3} \times S^{1}$-cylinder. The basic field…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-06-20 Igor Bayak

We propose that particles are associated both with localized macroscopic states at point vertices and with extended microscopic states at all vacuum points. The self-fields screen the microscopic particle currents everywhere except at the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. E. Bulyzhenkov

The geometrical interpretation of electromagnetism in transparent media (transformation optics) is extended to include media with isotropic, inhomogeneous, chirality. It is found that such media may be described through introducing the…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-28 S. A. R. Horsley