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The concept of cloaking -- hiding objects from external detection -- has seen wide success in linear systems. Yet, translating these advancements to nonlinear mechanical systems remains an open challenge. Here, we present a new approach to…

Particle-antiparticle pairs are predicted by quantum field theory to appear as vacuum fluctuations. The model of the vacuum used here is postulated to have the following properties: To minimize the violation of conservation energy allowed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 G. B. Mainland , Bernard Mulligan

This paper addresses the problem of tracking moving objects of variable appearance in challenging scenes rich with features and texture. Reliable tracking is of pivotal importance in surveillance applications. It is made particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-26 Rhys Martin , Ognjen Arandjelović

Detection of scattered light can determine the susceptibility of dielectrics. Such imaging normally holds Rayleigh's limit: details finer than the wavelength of the incident light cannot be determined from the far-field zone. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Vanik E. Mkrtchian , Hakob S. Avetisyan , Armen E. Allahverdyan

An active interior cloak is composed of a conformal array of radiating sources surrounding a target object. With proper configuration, this array radiates a field discontinuity which cancels out any scattering which occurs when the object…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Paris Ang , George V. Eleftheriades

Acoustic cloaks that make object undetectable to sound waves have potential applications in a variety of scenarios and have received increasing interests recently. However, the experimental realization of a three-dimensional (3D) acoustic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-03-13 Weiwei Kan , Bin Liang , Ruiqi Li , Xue Jiang , Xin-ye Zou , Lei-lei Yin , Jianchun Cheng

Irrotational relativistic vortex configurations in uniform subsonic motion with respect to a surrounding perfect fluid are analysed for the purpose of application to superfluid layers in neutron stars. Asymptotic solutions are found by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Brandon Carter , David Langlois , Denis Priou

We cloak a region from a known incident wave by surrounding the region with three or more devices that cancel out the field in the cloaked region without significantly radiating waves. Since very little waves reach scatterers within the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fernando Guevara Vasquez , Graeme W. Milton , Daniel Onofrei

The ability to render objects invisible using a cloak - not detectable by an external observer - for concealing objects has been a tantalizing goal1-6. Here, we demonstrate a cloak operating in the near infrared at a wavelength of 1550 nm.…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-30 Lucas H. Gabrielli , Jaime Cardenas , Carl B. Poitras , Michal Lipson

Acoustic invisibility of a cloaking system in turbulent uids has been poorly understood. Here we show that evident scattering would appear in turbulent wakes owing to the submergence of a classical cloaking device. The inherent mechanism is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-25 Xun Huang , Siyang Zhong

Optical cloaking consists in hiding from sight an object by properly deviating the light that comes from it. An optical cloaking device (OCD) is an artifact that hides the object and, at the same time, its presence is not (or should not be)…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-01-22 I. Marcos-Muñoz , A. S. Sanz

Is it possible to actually make Harry's invisibility cloaks? The most promising approach for realizing such magical cloaking in our real world would be to use transformation optics, where an empty space with a distorted geometry is imitated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-04 Tomohiro Amemiya , Daisuke Nishiyama , Masato Taki

We extend the design of radially symmetric three-dimensional invisibility cloaks through transformation optics to cloaks with a surface of revolution. We derive the expression of the transformation matrix and show that one of its…

An approach to hiding objects levitating or flying above a conducting sheet is suggested in this letter. The proposed device makes use of isotropic negative-refractive-index materials without extreme material parameters, and creates an…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-29 Jingjing Zhang , Yu Luo , Niels Asger Mortensen

We determine the path of the light around a dielectric vortex described by the relativistic vortex flow of a perfect fluid.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Linet

In quantum illumination entangled light is employed to enhance the detection accuracy of an object when compared with the best classical protocol. On the other hand, cloaking is a stealth technology based on covering a target with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-06 U. Las Heras , R. Di Candia , K. G. Fedorov , F. Deppe , M. Sanz , E. Solano

This paper is concerned with the invisibility cloaking in acoustic wave scattering from a new perspective. We are especially interested in achieving the invisibility cloaking by completely regular and isotropic mediums. It is shown that an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Xia Ji , Hongyu Liu

In this chapter, we review some recent developments in the field of photonics: cloaking, whereby an object becomes invisible to an observer, and mirages, whereby an object looks like another one (say, of a different shape). Such optical…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-24 Andre Diatta , Sebastien Guenneau , Andre Nicolet , Frederic Zolla

For a general complex scattering potential defined on a real line, we show that the equations governing invisibility of the potential are invariant under the combined action of parity and time-reversal (PT) transformation. We determine the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Ali Mostafazadeh

Coordinate transformations are a versatile tool to mould the flow of light, enabling a host of astonishing phenomena such as optical cloaking with metamaterials. Moving away from the usual restriction that links isotropic materials with…