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A self-consistent analytical solution of the multi-subband Boltzmann transport equation with collision term describing grain boundary and surface roughness scattering is presented to study the resistivity scaling in metal nanowires. The…

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We introduce a novel linear transport equation that models the evolution of a one-particle distribution subject to free transport and two distinct scattering mechanisms: one affecting the particle's speed and the other its direction. These…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Martina Conte , Nadia Loy

We introduce the concept of a metasurface system able to route space wave via surface waves. This concept may be used to laterally shift or modulate the beam width of scattered waves. We propose two corresponding synthesis techniques, one…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-19 Karim Achouri , Christophe Caloz

We calculate the one- and two-photon scattering matrices of a pair of collocated non-identical two-level atoms coupled to a waveguide. We show that by proper choice of a two-photon input, the background fluorescence by the atoms may be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Eden Rephaeli , Sukru Ekin Kocabas , Shanhui Fan

We study travelling waves on a two--dimensional lattice with linear and nonlinear coupling between nearest particles and a periodic nonlinear substrate potential. Such a discrete system can model molecules adsorbed on a substrate crystal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Michal Feckan , Vassilis M. Rothos

Guiding and confining light at interfaces is crucial for applications involving light-matter interactions such as surface spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and quantum information technology. While dielectric surface waves offer promising…

The famous question of Mark Kac "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" addressing the unique connection between the shape of a planar region and the spectrum of the corresponding Laplace operator can be legitimately extended to scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-27 Oleh Hul , Michał Ławniczak , Szymon Bauch , Adam Sawicki , Marek Kuś , Leszek Sirko

We consider a nonlinear microcavity separating a waveguide channel into two parts so as the coupling between them is possible only due to the resonant properties of the microcavity. We provide a rigorous derivation of the equations used in…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-06 Victor Grigoriev , Fabio Biancalana

The coupled motion is investigated for a mechanical system consisting of water and a body freely floating in it. Water occupies either a half-space or a layer of constant depth into which an infinitely long surface-piercing cylinder is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Nikolay Kuznetsov

We theoretically investigate light scattering from an array of atoms into the guided modes of a waveguide. We show that the scattering of a plane wave laser field into the waveguide modes is dramatically enhanced for angles that deviate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 B. Olmos , C. Liedl , I. Lesanovsky , P. Schneeweiss

Motivated by recent experiments, the theoretical study of wave propagation in time varying materials is of current interest. Although significant in nearly all such experiments, material dispersion is commonly neglected in theoretical…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-25 Bryce Dixon , Calvin M. Hooper , Ian R. Hooper , Simon A. R. Horsley

Upper-ocean flows are a multi-scale jigsaw puzzle of turbulence and waves. Characterizing these flows is essential for understanding their role in redistributing heat, carbon, and nutrients, yet power spectral analysis cannot always…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 J. W. Skinner , A. Lawrence , J. Callies

A highly unusual pattern of strong multiple resonances for bulk electromagnetic waves is predicted and analysed numerically in thick periodic holographic gratings in a slab with the mean permittivity that is larger than that of the…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. K. Gramotnev , S. J. Goodman , T. A. Nieminen

We consider wave scattering from a system of highly contrasting resonators with time-modulated material parameters. In this setting, the wave equation reduces to a system of coupled Helmholtz equations that models the scattering problem. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

We consider principal properties of various wave regimes in two selected excitable systems with linear cross-diffusion in one spatial dimension observed at different parameter values. This includes fixed-shape propagating waves, envelope…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-22 M. A. Tsyganov , V. N. Biktashev

In this article, we substantiate the appositeness of the \emph{mode-matching technique} to study the scattering response of bridging elastic plates connecting two flexible duct regions of different heights. We present two different solution…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Muhammad Afzal , Hazrat Bilal , Naveed Ahmed , Abdul Wahab

We study the eigenmodes of a slab of a wire metamaterial and demonstrate that such a waveguiding structure supports deep-subwavelength propagating modes exhibiting properties of a single-mode waveguide at any fixed frequency below the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pavel Belov , Rostislav Dubrovka , Ivan Iorsh , Ilya Yagupov , Yuri Kivshar

We analyze electromagnetic waves propagation in one-dimensional periodic media with single or periodic defects. The study is made both from the point of view of the modes and of the diffraction problem. We provide an explicit dispersion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Didier Felbacq

It is shown that surface waves with twelve different velocities in the cases of different magneto-electrical boundary conditions can be guided by the interface of two magneto-electro-elastic half-spaces. The plane boundary of one of the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arman Melkumyan

This paper provides an analysis of radio wave scattering for frequencies ranging from the microwave to the Terahertz band (e.g., 1 GHz - 1 THz), by studying the scattering power reradiated from various types of materials with different…