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Due to their intuitiveness, flexibility and relative numerical efficiency, the macroscopic Maxwell-Bloch (MB) equations are a widely used semiclassical and semi-phenomenological model to describe optical propagation and coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Christian Jirauschek , Michael Riesch , Petar Tzenov

The possibility of an incompletness of the equations of electromagnetism is analyzed using a thought experiment that shows a non-physical behavior according to classical electromagnetism. Basically, from Maxwell equations it is shown that a…

General Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 Fernando O. Minotti

We give an overview of recent advances in analysis of equations of electrodynamics with the aid of biquaternionic technique. We discuss both models with constant and variable coefficients, integral representations of solutions, a numerical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Kira V. Khmelnytskaya , Vladislav V. Kravchenko

The covariant formulation of Maxwell's equations can be expressed in a form independent of the usual systems of units by introducing the constants alpha, beta and gamma into these equations. Maxwell's equations involving these constants are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-01-05 Jose A. Heras , G. Baez

Backlund transformations are used to search for solutions, particularly soliton solutions, of non-linear differential equations. In this paper we present an invariant geometrical theory of Backlund transformations for second order evolution…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. K. Rybnikov

In this work we give a mechanical (Hamiltonian) interpretation of the so called spectrality property introduced by Sklyanin and Kuznetsov in the context of B\"acklund transformations (BTs) for finite dimensional integrable systems. The…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-03 Orlando Ragnisco , Federico Zullo

Maxwell's equations hold in inertial reference frames in uniform translational motion relative to one another. In conjunction with the Lorentz coordinate transformation equations, the transformation equations for the electric and magnetic…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Snyder

Multipolar solutions of Maxwell's equations are used in many practical applications and are essential for the understanding of light-matter interactions at the fundamental level. Unlike the set of plane wave solutions of electromagnetic…

The B\"{a}cklund transformation for the three-level Maxwell-Bloch equation is presented in the matrix potential formalism. By applying the B\"{a}cklund transformation to a constant electric field background, we obtain a general solution for…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-30 Q-Han Park , H. J. Shin

We provide a method which takes an auto-B\"acklund transformation (auto-BT) and produces another auto-BT for a different equation. We apply the method to the natural auto-BTs for the ABS quad equations, which gives rise to torqued versions…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2021-09-09 Dan-da Zhang , Da-jun Zhang , Peter H. van der Kamp

Maxwell equations provide a complete description of the electromagnetic (EM) phenomena, which have been one of the key fundamental-theories of modern physics, such as electromagnetism, optics, quantum theories, etc. The vacuum permittivity…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Zhiwei Sun

The Ward equation, also called the modified 2+1 chiral model, is obtained by a dimension reduction and a gauge fixing from the self-dual Yang-Mills field equation on $R^{2,2}$. It has a Lax pair and is an integrable system. Ward constructed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bo Dai , Chuu-Lian Terng

This paper deals with the solution of Maxwell's equations to model the electromagnetic fields in the case of a layered earth. The integrals involved in the solution are approximated by means of a novel approach based on the splitting of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Eleonora Denich , Paolo Novati , Stefano Picotti

We present a non-isospectral GBDT version of B\"acklund-Darboux transformation for the gravitational and $\sigma$-model equations. New families of explicit solutions correspond to the case of GBDT with non-diagonal generalized matrix…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Alexander Sakhnovich

Two methods are explained to exactly solve Maxwell's equations where permittivity, permeability and conductivity may vary in space. In the constitutive relations, retardation is regarded. If the material properties depend but on one…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-20 Ulrich Brosa

A new family of nonlinear partial differential equations is presented. They represent a generalization of the hyperbolic Ernst equations for an Einstein-Mawxell-Weyl field in general relativity. A B\"acklund transformation for the system of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2016-09-08 Anastasios Tongas , Frank Nijhoff

Wide classes of nonlinear mathematical physics equations are described that admit order reduction through the use of the von Mises transformation, with the unknown function taken as the new independent variable and an appropriate partial…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-18 Andrei D. Polyanin , Alexei I. Zhurov

Boolean Delay Equations (BDEs) are semi-discrete dynamical models with Boolean-valued variables that evolve in continuous time. Systems of BDEs can be classified into conservative or dissipative, in a manner that parallels the…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-06-26 Michael Ghil , Ilya Zaliapin , Barbara Coluzzi

Recent experimental results on slow light heighten interest in nonlinear Maxwell theories. We obtain Galilei covariant equations for electromagnetism by allowing special nonlinearities in the constitutive equations only, keeping Maxwell's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gerald A. Goldin , Vladimir Shtelen

Modern physics is largely devoted to study conservation laws, such as charge, energy, linear momentum or angular momentum, because they give us information about the symmetries of our universe. Here, we propose to add the relationship…