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We discuss the propagation of electromagnetic waves on a rectangular lattice of polarizable point dipoles. For wavelengths long compared to the lattice spacing, we obtain the dispersion relation in terms of the lattice spacing and the…

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We demonstrate a strong coherent backward wave oscillation using forward propagating fields only. This is achieved by applying laser fields to an ultra-dispersive medium with proper chosen detunings to excite a molecular vibrational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuri V. Rostovtsev , Zoe-Elizabeth Sariyanni , Marlan O. Scully

In this Letter, we study theoretically reflectance of a monolayer comprizing regularly spaced quantum $\Lambda$-emitters. Due to high density of the latter, the monolayer almost totally reflects the incident field in the vicinity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 Igor V. Ryzhov , Ramil F. Malikov , Victor A. Malyshev

Radiation from a localized, oscillating charge distribution can have angular momentum that cannot be explained in classical electrodynamics. We consider the simplest example -- electric dipole radiation of a single photon -- and show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Peter W. Milonni , G. Jordan Maclay

This paper describes the use of Feynman photon path integrals to compute the probability of detecting reflected, diffracted, and scattered photons at different points in space after interacting with conduction electrons. Five examples are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Stephen E. Derenzo

Correlations between entangled photons are a key ingredient for testing fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics and an invaluable resource for quantum technologies. However, scattering from a dynamic medium typically scrambles and averages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-05 Mamoon Safadi , Ohad Lib , Ho-Chun Lin , Chia Wei Hsu , Arthur Goetschy , Yaron Bromberg

We report that normal incidence reflection and transmission of circularly polarized electromagnetic waves from and through planar split-ring metamaterials with chiral symmetry breaking depends on the incidence direction and handedness of…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-31 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

We describe an experimentally realistic situation of the quantum reflection of helium atoms from an oscillating surface. The temporal modulation of the potential induces clear sidebands in the reflection probability as a function of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-08 Benedikt Herwerth , Maarten DeKieviet , Javier Madronero , Sandro Wimberger

The ability to perfectly guide surface electromagnetic waves around ultra-sharp corners without back-scattering and radiation is in great demand for various photonic and plasmonic applications. This is fundamentally difficult to realize…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-12 Zhen Gao , Baile Zhang

The technologies of heating, photovoltaics, water photocatalysis and artificial photosynthesis depend on the absorption of light and novel approaches such as coherent absorption from a standing wave promise total dissipation of energy.…

Electromagnetic wave scattering by many parallel infinite cylinders is studied asymptotically as $a\to 0$. Here $a$ is the radius of the cylinders. It is assumed that the points $\hat{x}_m$ are distributed so that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Alexander G. Ramm

Non-uniform metasurfaces (electrically thin composite layers) can be used for shaping refracted and reflected electromagnetic waves. However, known design approaches based on the generalized refraction and reflection laws do not allow…

Geometrically decorated two-dimensional (2D) discrete surfaces can be more effective than conventional smooth reflectors in managing wave radiation. Constructive non-specular wave scattering permits the scattering angle to be other than…

One-dimensional optical waveguiding is revisited using the electromagnetic deduction of Fresnel formulas relating the incident, reflected, and transmitted waves on the abrupt interface between two different optical media. Throughout the…

We present a brief overview of the transport of quantum light across a one-dimensional waveguide which is integrated with a periodic string of quantum-scale dipoles. We demonstrate a scheme to implement transparency by suitably tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-08 Girish S. Agarwal , Debsuvra Mukhopadhyay

In this work, we discuss the way in which electric and magnetic dipole resonances arising in the optical scattering spectrum of non-absorbing dielectric nanospheres can be accurately approximated by means of simple explicit expressions that…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-03 F. López-Tejeira

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

Electromagnetic response of PT-dipole is studied both analytically and numerically. In analytical approach, dipole is represented by two point scatterers. Within the first Born approximation, the asymmetry of the scattering field with…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-26 K. Staliunas , P. Markoš , V. Kuzmiak

Sheets of slab waveguides with sharp corners are investigated. By means of rigorous numerical experiments, we look at oblique incidence of semi-guided plane waves. Radiation losses vanish beyond a certain critical angle of incidence. One…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-20 Manfred Hammer , Andre Hildebrandt , Jens Förstner

We study strong light-mediated resonant dipole-dipole interactions in two-dimensional planar lattices of cold atoms. We provide a detailed analysis for the description of the dipolar point emitter lattice plane as a "super-atom", whose…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 G. Facchinetti , J. Ruostekoski