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A non--linear diffusion equation is derived by taking into account hopping rates depending on the occupation of next neighbouring sites. There appears additonal repulsive and attractive forces leading to a changed local mobiltiy. The…

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The space-time focusing of a (continuous) succession of localized X-shaped pulses is obtained by suitably integrating over their speed, i.e., over their axicon angle, thus generalizing a previous (discrete) approach. First, new Superluminal…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Zamboni Rached , Amr Shaarawi , Erasmo Recami

The distinctive features of passing the two-component extremely short pulses through the nonlinear media are discussed. The equations considered describe the propagation in the two-level anisotropic medium of the electromagnetic pulses…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 N. V. Bakhar , N. V. Ustinov

In an isotropic, homogeneous, nondissipative, dielectric-magnetic medium that is simply moving with respect to an inertial reference frame, planewave solutions of the Maxwell curl postulates can be such that the phase velocity and the…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

We develop a general method allowing one to construct the consistent theory of light pulse propagation through an atomic medium in arbitrary nonlinear regime with respect to the field strength, taking into account the light polarization,…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 V. I. Yudin , M. Yu. Basalaev , D. V. Brazhnikov , A. V. Taichenachev

I derive directional wave equations useful for pulses propagating in beam, rod, pipe, and disk geometries by using a cylindrical coordinate system; the scheme works equally well for either long multi-cycle or single-cycle ultrashort pulses.…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-26 Paul Kinsler

Optical beams with certain asymmetric profiles, such as the Airy beam, can depart from rectilinear propagation and instead travel along curved (typically parabolic) trajectories. Here we show that sculpting the spatiotemporal spectrum of…

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We show how to transform the mathematical expression of any monochromatic paraxial light beam into the expression of a pulsed beam whose diffraction is switched from the axial direction to its temporal structure. We exemplify this…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-14 Miguel A. Porras

Toroidal electromagnetic pulses have been recently reported as nontransverse, space-time nonseparable topological excitations of free space [Nat. Photon. 16, 523-528 (2022)]. However, their propagation dynamics and topological…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ren Wang , Zhi-Qiang Hu , Pan-Yi Bao , Shuai Shi , Bing-Zhong Wang , Nikolay I. Zheludev , Yijie Shen

We analyze the transport properties of a set of symmetry-breaking extensions %, both spatial and temporal, of the Chirikov--Taylor Map. The spatial and temporal asymmetries result in the loss of periodicity in momentum direction in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-28 Taksu Cheon , Pavel Exner , Petr Seba

We investigate the dynamics of an Airy pulse that experiences free carrier generated optical linear potential in the vicinity of zero group velocity dispersion (GVD) wavelength inside a Si based waveguide. The optically induced potential…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-13 Aritra Banerjee , Samudra Roy

We apply expansion methods to obtain an approximate expression in terms of elementary functions for the space and time dependence of wave packets in a dispersive medium. The specific application to pulses in a cold plasma is considered in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Borge Nodland

We investigate the causal propagation of the pulse through dispersive media by very precise numerical solution of the coupled Maxwell-Bloch equations without any approximations about the strength of the input field. We study full nonlinear…

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Axion electrodynamics extends Maxwell's theory by postulating a hypothetical pseudoscalar axion field sourced by a scalar product of electric and magnetic fields. In this work, we demonstrate that a superposition of toroidal electromagnetic…

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We study the existence of polychromatic solutions of cubically nonlinear Maxwell equations in the whole space and with dispersive media, i.e., with a time delayed polarization. Due to the complex nature of the dielectric function, the…

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Fractional, anomalous diffusion in space-periodic potentials is investigated. The analytical solution for the effective, fractional diffusion coefficient in an arbitrary periodic potential is obtained in closed form in terms of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-02 E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , I. Goychuk , P. Hanggi

An analysis of the concept of orientation used in electrodynamics is presented. At least two different versions are encountered in the literature. Both are clearly identified and comparisons are made.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Giuseppe Marmo , Emanuele Parasecoli , Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew

Airy beams are known for displaying shape invariance and self-acceleration along the transverse direction while they propagate forwards. Although these properties could be associated with the beam coherence, it has been revealed that they…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-17 R. Martínez-Herrero , A. S. Sanz

We derive and interpret solutions of time-harmonic Maxwell's equations with a vertical and a horizontal electric dipole near a planar, thin conducting film, e.g. graphene sheet, lying between two unbounded isotropic and non-magnetic media.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Dionisios Margetis , Mitchell Luskin