English
Related papers

Related papers: Shape-Preserving Accelerating Electromagnetic Wave…

200 papers

Starting from first principles, we formulate a theory of wave packet propagation in a nonlinear, disordered medium of any dimension, through the derivation of a Fokker-Planck transport equation. Our theory is based on a diagrammatic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-10-28 Nicolas Cherroret , Thomas Wellens

Accelerating beams are wave packets which appear to spontaneously accelerate without external potentials or applied forces. Since their first physical realisation in the form of Airy beams, they have found applications on various platforms,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-01 David Colas , Fabrice P. Laussy , Matthew J. Davis

Propagation of the extremely short electromagnetic pulse in non-linear dielectric media without the slowly varying envelope approximation is discussed. The models under consideration take into account both resonant and not-resonant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Maimistov

We review some recent results obtained for the time evolution of wave packets for systems of equations of pseudo-differential type, including Schr{\"o}dinger ones, and discuss their application to the approximation of the associated unitary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Clotilde Kammerer , Caroline Lasser , Didier Robert

Characterizing electromagnetic wave propagation in nonlinear and inhomogeneous media is of great interest from both theoretical and practical perspectives, even though it is extremely complicated. In fact, it is still an unresolved issue to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-28 Liang Hu , Xiao Zhang , Dazhi Zhao , MaoKang Luo

The solution of the wave equation in the envelope approximation with temporal corrections for a laser pulse propagating in a medium where the Kerr effect, field ionization, and associated absorption take place, is obtained through a…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 F. Vidal

We consider the propagation of wave packets for a one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a matrix-valued potential, in the semi-classical limit. For an initial coherent state polarized along some eigenvector, we prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Rémi Carles , Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer

Using the thin-layer approach, we derive the effective equation for the electromagnetic wave propagating along a space curve. We find intrinsic spin-orbit, extrinsic spin-orbit and extrinsic orbital angular momentum and intrinsic orbital…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-28 Meng-Yun Lai , Yong-Long Wang , Guo-Hua Liang , Fan Wang , Hong-Shi Zong

By numerically solving the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, we theoretically study the nonlinear propagation dynamics and self-healing properties of elliptical Airy beams (EABs) propagating in water under Kerr nonlinearity. Compared to…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-28 Qinjun Jian , Jing Hu , Lihe Yan , Jinhai Si , Xun Hou

The propagation of matter waves in curved geometry is relevant for electrons in nano-wires, solid-state physics structures and atomtronics. Curvature effects are usually addressed within the adiabatic limit and treated via an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-06 François Impens , Romain Duboscq , David Guéry-Odelin

We study the resonant interaction of charged particles with a gravitational wave propagating in the non-empty interstellar space in the presence of a uniform magnetic field. It is found that this interaction can be cast in the form of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Kleidis , H. Varvoglis , D. B. Papadopoulos

We study the propagation of Maxwellian electromagnetic waves in curved spacetimes in terms of the appropriate geometrical optics limit, notions of signal speed, and minimal coupling prescription from Maxwellian theory in flat spacetime. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-22 Niels Linnemann , James Read

Space-time varying metamaterials based on uniform-velocity modulation have spurred considerable interest over the past decade. We present here the first extensive investigation of accelerated modulation space-time metamaterials. Using the…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-28 Amir Bahrami , Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Christophe Caloz

Here we study the wave propagation and stability of general relativistic non-resistive dissipative second-order magnetohydrodynamic equations in curved space-time. We solve the Boltzmann equation for a system of particles and antiparticles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-09 Ankit Kumar Panda , Victor Roy

In this Letter, we employ the complex screen method to investigate the dynamic evolution of partially coherent pulses with specified properties as they propagate through a nonlinear Kerr medium. Our results reveal that partially coherent…

In previous paper we have shown that there is a special kind of nonlinear electrodynamics - Curvilinear Wave Electrodynamics (CWED), whose equations are mathematically equivalent to the equations of quantum electrodynamics. The purpose of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander G. Kyriakos

We review recent progress in the dynamics of nonlinear lattice waves in heterogeneous media, which enforce complete wave localization in the linear wave equation limit, especially Anderson localization for random potentials, and Aubry-Andre…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-22 T. V. Laptyeva , M. V. Ivanchenko , S. Flach

We investigate experimentally and theoretically the nonlinear propagation of 87Rb Bose Einstein condensates in a trap with cylindrical symmetry. An additional weak periodic potential which encloses an angle with the symmetry axis of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Th. Anker , M. Albiez , B. Eiermann , M. Taglieber , M. K. Oberthaler

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…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-10 Douglas H. Bradshaw , Michael D. Di Rosa

This work investigates the propagation of electromagnetic waves in waveguides within static curved spacetimes. We develop a covariant formalism using Hertzian potentials to describe guided electromagnetic modes in spacetimes with metrics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Javier Blanco-Romero