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A self-consistent nonlinear hydrodynamic theory is presented of the propagation of a long and thin relativistic electron beam through a plasma that is relatively strongly magnetized, $|\Omega_e|\sim\omega_{pe}$ and whose density is much…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Dusan Jovanovic , Renato Fedele , Milivoj Belic , Sergio De Nicola

We uncover and identify the regime for a magnetically and ferroelectrically controllable negative refraction of light traversing multiferroic, oxide-based metastructure consisting of alternating nanoscopic ferroelectric (SrTiO$_2$) and…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-01 R. Khomeriki , Levan Chotorlishvili , Igor Tralle , Jamal Berakdar

Negative refraction is known to occur in materials that simultaneously possess a negative electric permittivity and magnetic permeability; hence they are termed negative index materials. However, there are no known natural materials that…

Negative refraction has attracted much interest for its promising capability in imaging applications. Such an effect can be implemented by negative index meta-materials, however, which are usually accompanied by high loss and demanding…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-25 Jianjun Cao , Dongyi Shen , Yaming Feng , Wenjie Wan

Materials that exhibit loss or gain have a complex valued refractive index $n$. Nevertheless, when considering the propagation of optical pulses, using a complex $n$ is generally inconvenient -- hence the standard choice of real-valued…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-03 P. Kinsler

The paper demonstrates that negative refractive index can be achieved via tuning the tunneling rate between a double quantum dots(QDs) system by applying a bias voltage, and a pulsed laser. As the bias voltage being changed, the refraction…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-08 Shun-Cai Zhao , Xiao-fan Qian , Ya-Ping Zhang , Yong-An Zhang

Electromagnetic wave is reflected and refracted at interfaces, satisfying Fresnel-Snell law which is required by conservations of energy and momentum. If the incident angle is lower than the critical angle, we can use this Fresnel-Snell…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-30 Daigo Oue

We consider the electromagnetic waves propagating in the system of coupled waveguides. One of the system components is a standard waveguide fabricated from nonlinear medium having positive refraction and another component is a waveguide…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Elena V. Kazantseva , Andrei I. Maimistov , Sergei S. Ozhenko

We report on the nonlinear turbulent processes associated with electromagnetic waves in plasmas. We focus on low-frequency (in comparison with the electron gyrofrequency) nonlinearly interacting electron whistlers and nonlinearly…

Space Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Dastgeer Shaikh , P K Shukla

Density fluctuations of fluids with negative pressure exhibit decreasing time behaviour in the long wavelength limit, but are strongly unstable in the small wavelength limit when a hydrodynamical approach is used. On the other hand, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Fabris , S. V. B. Goncalves , N. A. Tomimura

We study the phenomenon of quantum backflow in tight-binding systems with complex couplings, considering different boundary conditions and lattice sizes. Backflow is an intrinsically non-classical effect where the density flux associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Francisco Ricardo Torres Arvizu , Adrián Ortega , Hernán Larralde

Recently, artificially constructed metamaterials have become of considerable interest, as these materials can exhibit electromagnetic characteristics unlike any conventional materials. Artificial magnetism and negative refractive index are…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-09 D. R. Smith , J. B. Pendry , M. C. K. Wiltshire

We analyze refraction of electromagnetic wave packets on passing from an isotropic positive to an isotropic negative refractive index medium. We definitively show that in all cases the energy is always refracted negatively. For localized…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 W. T. Lu , J. B. Sokoloff , S. Sridhar

Recent interest in metamaterials has led to a renewed study of wave mechanics in different branches of physics. Elastodynamics involves a special intricacy, owing to a coupling between the volumetric and shear parts of the elastic waves.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Ben Lustig , Guy Elbaz , Alan Muhafra , Gal Shmuel

Using a two-fluid approach, we consider the properties of relativistically nonlinear (arbitrary $a_0$), circularly polarized \EM\ waves propagating along magnetic field in electron-ion and pair plasmas. Dispersion relations depend on how…

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A modulation of refractive index can move at the speed of light. How it interacts with an electromagnetic wave? Does it reflect? We show that an incident electromagnetic wave, depending on its frequency either is totally transmitted with a…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-19 T. Z. Esirkepov , S. V. Bulanov

The identification of the refractive index and wave vector for general (possibly active) linear, isotropic, homogeneous, and non-spatially dispersive media is discussed. Correct conditions for negative refraction necessarily include the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Johannes Skaar

The structure of the density singularity formed in a relativistically large amplitude plasma wave close to the wavebreaking limit leads to a refraction coefficient which has a coordinate dependence with discontinuous derivatives. This…

Relativistic flying mirrors in plasmas are realized as thin dense electron (or electron-ion) layers accelerated by high-intensity electromagnetic waves to velocities close to the speed of light in vacuum. The reflection of an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Sergei V. Bulanov , Timur Zh. Esirkepov , Masaki Kando , James K. Koga

Negative refraction, which reverses many fundamental aspects of classical optics, can be obtained in systems with negative magnetic permeability and negative dielectric permittivity. This Letter documents an experimental realization of…

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