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In this work, we investigate the response of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials and plasmonic materials to electromagnetic source excitation. The use of these media for tailoring the phase of radiation pattern of arbitrary sources is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-07-04 Andrea Alu , Mario Silveirinha , Alessandro Salandrino , Nader Engheta

The theory for the quantum tunneling of nano-magnets is developed within the intermediate spin framework. Periodic magnetic effects are seen to reflect that associated with a change of flux by a single flux quantum $\Phi_{0}$. Essential are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Barnes

In this paper, electromagnetic emissions produced in a thin beam-plasma system are studied using two-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations. For the first time, the problem of emission generation in such a system is considered in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 V. V. Annenkov , I. V. Timofeev , E. P. Volchok

An Electromagnetic (EM) pulse falling on a plasma medium from vacuum can either reflect or propagate inside the plasma depending on whether it is overdense or underdense. In a magnetised plasma, however, there are usually several pass and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Devshree Mandal , Ayushi Vashistha , Amita Das

In this work, we propose epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) nanoparticles formed of metal and dielectric bilayers and employ the effective medium approach for multilayered nanospheres to study their optical response. We obtained a passive tunable ENZ…

We analyse the optical (or microwave) tunnelling properties of electromagnetic waves passing through thin films presenting a specific index profile providing a cut-off frequency, when they are used below this frequency. We show that…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Shvartsburg , Guillaume Petite

We study theoretically the impact of Zener tunneling on the charge-transport properties of quasi-metallic (Qm) carbon nanotubes (characterized by forbidden band gaps of few tens of meV). We also analyze the interplay between Zener tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gaston Kané , Michele Lazzeri , Francesco Mauri

A novel methodology to unleash electromagnetic coupling matrix information in coupled-resonator microwave circuits has been recently proposed [1]. This information is derived from Maxwell's equations and the natural language of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Valentin de la Rubia , David Young

We suggest a theory of internal coherent tunneling in the pseudogap region where the applied voltage is below the free electron gap. We consider quasi 1D systems where the gap is originated by a lattice dimerization like in polyacethylene,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. I. Matveenko , S. Brazovskii

Electrical conduction is studied along parabolically confined quasi-one dimensional channels, in the framework of a revised linear-response theory, for elastic scattering. For zero magnetic field an explicit multichannel expression for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Guillon , P. Vasilopoulos , C. M. Van Vliet

We suggest a principle for isolation of circularly polarized waves in magnetically active extreme-parameter metamaterials. Using theoretical analysis and numerical simulations, we show that metamaterials with extreme parameters, such as…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Arthur R. Davoyan , Ahmed Mahmoud , Nader Engheta

We present the first experimental observation of resonance-assisted tunneling, a wave phenomenon, where regular-to-chaotic tunneling is strongly enhanced by the presence of a classical nonlinear resonance chain. For this we use a microwave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 Stefan Gehler , Steffen Löck , Susumu Shinohara , Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick , Ulrich Kuhl , Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials, including artificial metamaterials, have been advanced to mold laser beams and antenna-mediated radiated waves. Here we propose an efficient method to control Ohmic losses inherent to natural ENZ materials…

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials, i.e., materials with a vanishing real part of the permittivity, have become an increasingly desirable platform for exploring linear and nonlinear optical phenomena in nanophotonic and on-chip environments.…

Simulating the electromagnetic properties of large-scale, complex metamaterial structures demands significant time and memory resources. If these large-scale structures can be divided into smaller, simpler components, the overall cost of…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-24 Junming Zhang , Weijia Luo , Yongzheng Wen , Jingbo Sun , Ji Zhou

We study metamaterials with an anisotropic effective permittivity tensor in which one component is near zero. We find that such an anisotropic metamaterial can be used to control wave propagation and construct almost perfect bending…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jie Luo , Ping Xu , Huanyang Chen , Bo Hou , Yun Lai

Calculations of tunneling matrix elements associated with electron transfer through molecular environments are usually done for given frozen nuclear configurations, assuming that nuclear motions are slow relative to the timescale of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Galperin , Abraham Nitzan

In recent years, unconventional metamaterial properties have triggered a revolution of electromagnetic research which has unveiled novel scenarios of wave-matter interaction. A very small dielectric permittivity is a leading example of such…

The propagation of surface electromagnetic waves along a uniform magnetic field is studied in a quantum electron-hole semiconductor plasma. A new forward propagating mode, not reported before, is found by the effect of quantum tunneling,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. P. Misra

A general nonperturbative theory of the low-energy electron propagator is developed and used to calculate the single-particle density of states in a variety of systems. This method involves the decoupling of the electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-17 Kelly R. Patton