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Diffusion is the macroscopic manifestation of disordered molecular motion. Mathematically, diffusion equations are partial differential equations describing the fluid-like large-scale dynamics of parcels of molecules. Spatially…

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Wave propagation in time-varying media enables unique control of energy transport by breaking energy conservation through temporal modulation. Among the resulting phenomena, temporal disorder-random fluctuations in material parameters-can…

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In this Letter, we introduce a representation of the electromagnetic field for the analysis and synthesis of the full-wave scattering by a homogeneous dielectric object of arbitrary shape in terms of a set of eigenmodes independent of its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Carlo Forestiere , and Giovanni Miano

A method is given for finding small inhomogeneities from surface scattering data. The method consists in localization of the positions and finding the intensities of these small inhomogeneities. The case of acoustic wave scattering is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Ramm

A low loss propagating electromagnetic wave is shown to exist at a gradual interface between two lossy conductive media. The electromagnetic frequency range of this phenomenon may span from UV optics to RF range. In particular, it is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Igor I. Smolyaninov

For any inhomogeneous compactly supported electromagnetic (EM) medium, it is shown that there exists an infinite set of linearly independent electromagnetic waves which generate nearly vanishing scattered wave fields. If the inhomogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Hongyu Liu , Yuliang Wang , Shuhui Zhong

We analyze a homogenization limit for the linear wave equation of second order. The spatial operator is assumed to be of divergence form with an oscillatory coefficient matrix $a^\varepsilon$ that is periodic with characteristic length…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Tomas Dohnal , Agnes Lamacz , Ben Schweizer

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

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by three--dimensional periodic structures is important for many problems of crucial scientific and engineering interest. Due to the complexity and three-dimensional nature of these waves, the fast,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-31 David P. Nicholls , Liet Vo

Currently, much interest is drawn to the analysis of optical and matter-wave modes supported by the fractional diffraction in nonlinear media. We predict a new type of such states, in the form of domain walls (DWs) in the two-component…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-23 Shatrughna Kumar , Pengfei Li , Boris A. Malomed

Originally emerged within the context of string and quantum field theory, and later fruitfully extrapolated to photonics, the algebraic transformations of quantum-mechanical supersymmetry were conceived in the space realm. Here, we…

Here, we present an overview of a first principles homogenization theory of periodic metamaterials. It is shown that in a rather general context it is possible to formally introduce effective parameters that describe the time evolution of…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-18 Sylvain Lannebère , Tiago A. Morgado , Mário G. Silveirinha

Nonlocal nonlinear Schroedinger-type equation is derived as a model to describe paraxial light propagation in nonlinear media with different `degrees' of nonlocality. High frequency limit of this equation is studied under specific…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2012-10-01 Boris Konopelchenko , Antonio Moro

Space-time wave packets can propagate invariantly in free space with arbitrary group velocity thanks to the spatio-temporal correlation. Here it is proved that the space-time wave packets are stable in dispersive media as well and free from…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Hao He , Cheng Guo , Meng Xiao

Maxwell equations are solved in a layer comprising a finite number of homogeneous isotropic dielectric regions ended by anisotropic perfectly matched layers (PMLs). The boundary-value problem is solved and the dispersion relation inside the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diana C. Skigin

Spatially periodic reaction-diffusion equations typically admit pulsating waves which describe the transition from one steady state to another. Due to the heterogeneity, in general such an equation is not invariant by rotation and therefore…

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In this paper, we concerned with the propagation of sound waves through stratified media. Transport equation of nonlinear geometric optics in media with mixed nonlinearity, in the case of spatially varying density and entropy fields, is…

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Starting from the wave equation for a medium with material properties that vary periodically, we study a system of recurrence relations that describe propagation of wave packets that oscillate on the microscale (i.e. on lengths of the order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Kirill Cherednichenko

We present a theory of electron, electromagnetic, and elastic wave propagation in systems consisting of non-overlapping scatterers in a host medium. The theory provides a framework for a unified description of wave propagation in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Modinos , N. Stefanou , I. E. Psarobas , V. Yannopapas

This paper studies time-dependent electromagnetic scattering from metamaterials that are described by dispersive material laws. We consider the numerical treatment of a scattering problem in which a dispersive material law, for a causal and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-08 Jörg Nick , Selina Burkhard , Christian Lubich