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While the postulate of covariance of Maxwell's equations for all inertial observers led Einstein to special relativity, it was the further demand of general covariance -- form invariance under general coordinate transformations, including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-12 Robert T. Thompson

We propose a new set of rotationally and translationally invariant features for image or pattern recognition and classification. The new features are cubic polynomials in the pixel intensities and provide a richer representation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Risi Kondor

A mirrored transformation optics (MTO) approach is presented to overcome the material mismatch in transformation optics. It makes good use of the reflection behavior and introduce a mirrored medium to offset the phase discontinuities. Using…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-23 Junke Liao , Pengfei Zhao , Zhinbing Zhang , Wen Xiao , Huanyang Chen

A new way to understand why some inhomogeneous dielectric medium can be used for confining the light wave has been given by using non-Euclidean transformation optics. We show that special inhomogeneous dielectric medium, which corresponds…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-25 F. Sun

Transformation optics has shaped up a revolutionary electromagnetic design paradigm, enabling scientists to build astonishing devices such as invisibility cloaks. Unfortunately, the application of transformation techniques to other branches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 C. García-Meca , S. Carloni , C. Barceló , G. Jannes , J. Sánchez-Dehesa , A. Martínez

The idea of the work is to find an invariant way to pass from deformation theory to cohomology, which does not use any explicit cocycles. The appropriate cohomology theory is based on considering sheaves on a certain site. An advantage of…

alg-geom · Mathematics 2008-02-03 D. Gaitsgory

A novel covariant formalism for the treatment of the transfer and Compton scattering of partially polarized light is presented. This was initially developed to aid in the computation of relativistic corrections to the polarization generated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jamie Portsmouth , Edmund Bertschinger

The advent of dispersion-engineered and highly nonlinear nanophotonics is expected to open up an all-optical path towards the strong-interaction regime of quantum optics by combining high transverse field confinement with ultra-short-pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Ryotatsu Yanagimoto , Edwin Ng , Tatsuhiro Onodera , Hideo Mabuchi

In the field of transformation optics, metamaterials mimic the effect of coordinate transformations on electromagnetic waves, creating the illusion that the waves are propagating through a virtual space. Transforming space by appropriately…

Optics · Physics 2009-08-18 Yun Gui Ma , C. K. Ong , Tomas Tyc , Ulf Leonhardt

As the continual experimental advances made in Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and cathodoluminescence (CL) open the door to practical exploitations of plasmonic effects in metal nanoparticles, there is an increasing need for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Yu Luo , Matthias Kraft , J. B. Pendry

The author proposes the methodology of transformation optics in orthogonal coordinates to obtain the material parameters of the transformation media from the mapping in orthogonal coordinates. Several examples are given to show the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Huanyang Chen

This is a survey of approximate cloaking using transformation optics for acoustic and electromagnetic waves.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Hoai-Minh Nguyen , Michael S. Vogelius

By means of a canonical transformation it is shown how it is possible to recast the equations for molecular nonlinear optics to completely eliminate ground-state static dipole coupling terms. Such dipoles can certainly play a highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gediminas Juzeliunas , Luciana Davila Romero , David L. Andrews

Adaptive optics can be used to mitigate the effects of atmospheric turbulence on imaging systems, but the correction is only partial, and deconvolution is often required to improve the resolution. This results in entire optical/digital…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Florian Cheyssial , Laurent Mugnier , Cyril Petit

Transformation equations for physical quantities that characterize plane electromagnetic wave propagation in transparent optical media are presented. The Doppler effect, and measurements performed by an observer moving with the wave are…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-04 B. Rothenstein , A. De Sabata

In this paper various extensions of the design strategy of transformation media are proposed. We show that it is possible to assign different transformed spaces to the field strength tensor (electric field and magnetic induction) and to the…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-04 L. Bergamin

All-optical switching based on optical nonlinearity must undergo complex processes of light-mater interaction in atom and electron scale, so a relative high power and long response time is required, that construct main bottlenecks in…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-11 Xiaoming Liu , Ji Zhou , Natalia Litchinitser , Jingbo Sun

All-optical image processing offers a high-speed, energy-efficient alternative to conventional electronic systems by leveraging the wave nature of light for parallel computation. However, traditional optical processors rely on bulky…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-17 Linzhi Yu , Haobijam J. Singh , Jesse Pietila , Humeyra Caglayan

In this note we discuss the invariance under general changes of reference frame of all the physical predictions of particle detector models in quantum field theory in general and, in particular, of those used in quantum optics to model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez

The implementation of log-pol transformation has recently introduced a new boost in electron optics with charged matter vortices, allowing to map conformally between linear and orbital angular momentum (OAM) states and to measure them. That…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Gianluca Ruffato , Enzo Rotunno , Vincenzo Grillo