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A uniaxial chiral metamaterial is constructed by double-layered four "U" split ring resonators mutually twisted by 90 degrees. It shows a giant optical activity and circular dichroism. The retrieval results reveal that a negative refractive…

This study describes both experimentally and theoretically an important hitherto undiscovered feature of the scattering of micron_sized spherical objects when illuminated with highly focused circularly polarized light. This is a regime of…

This paper is concerned with the diffraction of an electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting half-plane in a homogeneous bi-isotropic medium (asymptotically). Similar analysis in a source-free field is done in Asghar,S. and Lakhtakia,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wasiq Hussain

Here, we present an exploratory study of the potential applications of electrically biased materials that possess a nonreciprocal and non-Hermitian electromagnetic response analogous to the electronic response of field-effect transistors.…

The most important features of the proposed spherical gravitational wave detectors are closely linked with their symmetry. Hollow spheres share this property with solid ones, considered in the literature so far, and constitute an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 E. Coccia , V. Fafone , G. Frossati , J. A. Lobo , J. A. Ortega

Photons experience mirror asymmetry of macroscopic chiral media, as in circular dichroism and polarization rotation, since left and right handed circular polarizations differently couple with matter handedness. Conversely, free relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 Alessandro Ciattoni

The electromagnetic response of isotropic chiral matter, as described by Carroll-Field-Jackiw electrodynamics, arises in distinct physical contexts ranging from condensed matter systems to Lorentz-violating extensions of high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 R. Martínez von Dossow , Eduardo Barredo-Alamilla , Maxim A. Gorlach , Luis F. Urrutia

We address the scattering cross sections, and their consequences, for submicrometer Germanium spheres. It is shown that there is a wide window in the near infrared where light scattering by these particles is fully described by their…

We report the first experimental evidence that electromagnetic coupling between physically separated planar metal patterns located in parallel planes provides for exceptionally strong polarization rotatory power if one pattern is twisted in…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Rogacheva , V. A. Fedotov , A. S. Schwanecke , N. I. Zheludev

One of the main advantages of reciprocal bianisotropic metasurfaces is their capability to produce asymmetric scattering depending from which side they are illuminated and on the handedness of circularly polarized illuminations. For most…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 F. S Cuesta , M. S. Mirmoosa , S. A. Tretyakov

Metasurfaces, the two-dimensional analogues of metamaterials, are ideal platforms for sensing molecular chirality at the nanoscale, e.g. of inclusions of natural optically active molecules, as they offer large accessible areas (they are…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Sotiris Droulias

Chiral matter exhibits unique electromagnetic responses due to the macroscopic manifestation of the chiral anomaly as anomalous transport currents. Here, we study the modification of electromagnetic radiation in isotropic chiral matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-29 Eduardo Barredo-Alamilla , Luis F. Urrutia , Maxim A. Gorlach

We experimentally demonstrate a three-dimensional chiral optical metamaterial that exhibits an asymmetric transmission for forwardly and backwardly propagating linearly polarized light. The observation of this novel effect requires a…

Many astrophysical systems can be approximated as isothermal spheres. In an isothermal sphere, the ``foreground'' objects can act as lenses on ``background'' objects in the same distribution. We study gravitational lensing by a singular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Yun Wang

Theory was formulated for scattering by a coated chiral sphere of a plane wave of arbitrary polarization state with amplitude modulated by a Gaussian pulse. The spherical core and the concentric shell of the sphere were composed of two…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-24 Hector M. Iga-Buitron , Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Chirality is at the origin of life and is ubiquitous in nature. An object is deemed chiral if it is non-superimposable with its own mirror image. This relates to how circularly polarized light interacts with such object, a circular…

Negative real parts of the permittivity and permeability lead an isotropic chiral medium to exhibit circular dichroism that is reversed with respect to that exhibited by an identical medium but the real parts of whose permittivity and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The polarization dependence of the low field microwave photoconductivity and absorption of a two-dimensional electron system has been investigated in a quasi-optical setup in which linear and any circular polarization can be produced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. H. Smet , B. Gorshunov , C. Jiang , L. Pfeiffer , K. West , V. Umanksy , M. Dressel , R. Meisels , F. Kuchar , K. von Klitzing

Anisotropy is ubiquitous in solids and enhanced in low-dimensional materials. In response to an electromagnetic wave, anisotropic absorptive and refractive properties result in dichroic and birefringent optical phenomena both in the linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-03 T. Arikawa , Q. Zhang , L. Ren , A. A. Belyanin , J. Kono

We consider a polyhedron with zero classical resistance, i.e., a polyhedron invisible to an observer viewing only the paths of geometrical optics rays. The corresponding problem of scattering of plane waves by the polyhedron is studied. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 E. Lakshtanov , B. D. Sleeman , B. Vainberg