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Last year physicists in Europe have measured the velocity of the neutrinos particles. They found the neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light in vacuum. This result means that Einstein's relativity principle and its consequences in…

General Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 Pavel Mednis

The structure of the density singularity formed in a relativistically large amplitude plasma wave close to the wavebreaking limit leads to a refraction coefficient which has a coordinate dependence with discontinuous derivatives. This…

Recently, a number of experimental observations on the superluminal group velocities of pulses propagating in dispersive media have led to reconsidering electromagnetism theory in an unconventional framework. To consider faster-than-light…

General Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Luca Nanni

In this paper we extend for the case of Maxwell equations the "X-shaped" solutions previously found in the case of scalar (e.g., acoustic) wave equations. Such solutions are localized in theory, i.e., diffraction-free and particle-like…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Erasmo Recami

The macroscopic equations of Maxwell combined with a generalized form of the Lorentz law are a complete and consistent set; not only are these five equations fully compatible with the special theory of relativity, they also conform with the…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-07 Masud Mansuripur

We derive a quantum kinetic model describing the dynamics of graphene electrons in phase space based on the Wigner--Weyl formalism. To take into account the quantum nature of the carriers, we make use of the quantum Liouville equation for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 J. L. Figueiredo , J. P. S. Bizarro , H. Terças

The Riemann -- Silberstein -- Majorana -- Oppengeimer approach to the Maxwell electrodynamics in presence of electrical sources and arbitrary media is investigated within the matrix formalism. The symmetry of the matrix Maxwell equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-05 A. Bogush , V. Red'kov , N. Tokarevskaya , G. Spix

Based on the analysis of biquaternion quadratic forms of field, it is shown that Maxwell equations arise as a consequence of the principle of conservation of the energy-momentum flow of field in space-time. It turns out that this principle…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Sergey Y. Kotkovskiy

We develop a new method for describing the dynamics of 3-dimensional thermal plasmas. Using a piecewise constant 1-particle distribution, we reduce the Vlasov equation to a generalized Lorentz force equation for a family of vector fields…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. A. Burton , A. Noble , H. Wen

We consider cosmological applications of a new self-consistent system of equations, accounting for a nonminimal coupling of the gravitational, electromagnetic and pseudoscalar (axion) fields in a relativistic plasma. We focus on dispersion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-17 Alexander B. Balakin , Ruslan K. Muharlyamov , Alexei E. Zayats

On the viewpoint of corpuscular model an electromagnetic radiation can be regarded as a system composed of photons with different energies and momenta, which provides us a method being different from the Maxwell wave theory to describe the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Zhigang Bu , Yuee Luo , Hehe Li , Wenbo Chen , Peiyong Ji

The propagation of axisymmetric waves on the surface of a liquid jet under the action of a radial electric field is considered. The jet is assumed to be inviscid and perfectly conducting, and a field is set up by placing the jet…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-08 Qiming Wang , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou , Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck

We use Maxwell's equations in a sourceless, inhomogeneous medium with continuous permeability $\mu (\mathbf{r}) $ and permittivity $% \epsilon (\mathbf{r}) $ to study the wave propagation. The general form of the wave equation is derived…

General Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , Ashkan Roozbeh , M. Halilsoy

The dynamics of relativistic electrons interacting with a laser pulse in a plasma wave has been investigated theoretically and numerically based on the classical Landau-Lifshitz equation. There exists a convergent trajectory of electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Bin Liu , Bifeng Lei , Matt Zepf , Xueqing Yan

We start from the QED Lagrangian to describe a charged many-particle system coupled to the radiation field. A covariant density matrix approach to kinetic theory of QED plasmas, subjected to a strong external electro-magnetic field has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Hoell , V. G. Morozov , G. Roepke

The propagation of plasma waves in a new non-linear, logarithmic electrodynamics model is performed. A cold, uniform, collisionless fluid plasma model is applied. Electrostatic waves in magnetized plasma are shown to correspond to modified…

A qubit lattice algorithm (QLA) is developed for Maxwell equations in a two-dimensional Cartesian geometry. In particular, the initial value problem of electromagnetic pulse scattering off a localized 2D dielectric object is considered. A…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-09 G. Vahala , M. Soe , L. Vahala , A. K. Ram

Complex formalism of Riemann - Silberstein - Majorana - Oppenheimer in Maxwell electrodynamics is extended to the case of arbitrary pseudo-Riemannian space - time in accordance with the tetrad recipe of Tetrode - Weyl - Fock - Ivanenko. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 A. A. Bogush , G. G. Krylov , E. M. Ovsiyuk , V. M. Red'kov

In general, Maxwell's equations require that a wave of magnetic field be accompanied by a wave of electric field, and vice versa. In magnetic media it is possible to have waves of magnetization with negligible electric field. We discuss an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirk T. McDonald

The coherence length of the thermal electromagnetic field near a planar surface has a minimum value related to the nonlocal dielectric response of the material. We perform two model calculations of the electric energy density and the…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-17 Carsten Henkel , Karl Joulain