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Recent experiments have demonstrated that it is possible to alter the dispersion of a medium without significantly altering its absorption or refractive index and that this may be done while a wave propagates through the medium. This…

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When waves are propagated through a medium with scatters and these elements are positioned periodically, as in the crystal structures, multiple scattering leads to a phenomenon known as banded structures. This means that waves can propagate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-20 Enrique Orduna-Malea

The propagation of small-amplitude inhomogeneous plane waves in an isotropic homogeneous incompressible Mooney--Rivlin material is considered when the material is maintained in a state of finite static homogeneous deformation. Disturbances…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-02 Michel Destrade

A problem of electromagnetic (EM) plane wave diffraction on a moving half-plane in a homogeneous and isotropic medium is considered. It is shown, that unlike the stationary case, the shadow boundaries of the incident and reflected wave are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ciarkowski , B. Atamaniuk

We propose a time-domain boundary integral method to model linear wave propagation with refractive, focusing, and Doppler effects arising from medium heterogeneities and moving obstacles. In contrast to existing techniques, our method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Raaghav Ramani

We theoretically study reflection and transmission of light in a one-dimensional disordered phase-conjugating medium. Using an invariant imbedding approach a Fokker-Planck equation for the distribution of the probe light reflectance and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Blaauboer

We theoretically investigate the correlation functions of the phase of a light wave propagating through a turbulent medium. We use an equation for the logarithm of a wave packet envelope, which includes a second-order nonlinear term. Based…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-14 I. V. Kolokolov , V. V. Lebedev

We study Anderson localization and propagation of partially-spatially incoherent wavepackets in linear disordered potentials, motivated by the insight that interference phenomena resulting from multiple scattering are affected by the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. Čapeta , J. Radić , A. Szameit , M. Segev , H. Buljan

We study the longitudinal stability of beam-plasma systems in the presence of a density inhomogeneity in the background plasma. Previous works have focused on the non-relativistic regime where hydrodynamical models are used to evolve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Mohamad Shalaby , Avery E. Broderick , Philip Chang , Christoph Pfrommer , Ewald Puchwein , Astrid Lamberts

The mean path length invariance property is a very important property of scattering media illuminated by an isotropic and homogeneous radiation. Here we investigate the case of inhomogeneous media with refractive index mismatch between the…

We study the biased diffusion of particles moving in one direction under the action of a constant force in the presence of a piecewise linear random potential. Using the overdamped equation of motion, we represent the first and second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-08 S. I. Denisov , E. S. Denisova , H. Kantz

This work analyzes the dynamics of inhomogeneous, magnetically focused high-intensity beams of charged particles. While for homogeneous beams the whole system oscillates with a single frequency, any inhomogeneity leads to propagating…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-12-03 Felipe B. Rizzato , Renato Pakter , Yan Levin

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

This paper addresses the linear and nonlinear three-dimensional propagation of an electron wave in a collisionless plasma that may be inhomogeneous, nonstationary, anisotropic and even weakly magnetized. The wave amplitude, together with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Didier Bénisti

We consider the effect on the propagation of light of inhomogeneities with sizes of order 10 Mpc or larger. The Universe is approximated through a variation of the Swiss-cheese model. The spherical inhomogeneities are void-like, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 Nikolaos Brouzakis , Nikolaos Tetradis , Eleftheria Tzavara

Boundary integral equation is derived for the problem of scattering of electromagnetic waves by 3D homogeneous body of arbitrary shape.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-04 A. G. Ramm

We present a method developed to deal with electromagnetic wave propagation inside a material medium that reacts, in general, non-linearly to the field strength. We work in the context of Maxwell' s theory in the low frequency limit and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. A. De Lorenci , M. A. Souza

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in isotropic dielectric media with local dispersion is studied under the assumption of small but nonvanishing $\lambda/l$, where $\lambda$ is the wavelength, and $l$ is the characteristic…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-07 D. E. Ruiz , I. Y. Dodin

Wave propagation through waveguides, quantum wires or films with a modest amount of disorder is in the semi-ballistic regime when in the transversal direction(s) almost no scattering occurs, while in the long direction(s) there is so much…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Mosk , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen , C. Barnes

This work considers the propagation of high-frequency waves in highly-scattering media where physical absorption of a nonlinear nature occurs. Using the classical tools of the Wigner transform and multiscale analysis, we derive semilinear…

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