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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Cherney , E. Latini , A. Waldron

It is shown that Maxwell's equations in media without source can be written as a contact Hamiltonian vector field restricted to a Legendre submanifold, where this submanifold is in a fiber space of a bundle and is generated by either…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Shin-itiro Goto

A boundary integral equation formulation is presented for the electromagnetic transmission problem where an incident electromagnetic wave is scattered from a bounded dielectric object. The formulation provides unique solutions for all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Johan Helsing , Anders Karlsson

An axiomatic approach to electrodynamics reveals that Maxwell electrodynamics is just one instance of a variety of theories for which the name electrodynamics is justified. They all have in common that their fundamental input are Maxwell's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 Christian Pfeifer , Daniel Siemssen

The features of propagation of intense waves are of great interest for theory and experiment in electrodynamics and acoustics. The behavior of nonlinear waves in a bounded volume is of especial importance and, at the same time, is an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 E. Yu. Petrov , A. V. Kudrin

A new version of the invariant imbedding theory for the propagation of coupled waves in inhomogeneous media is applied to the mode conversion of high frequency electromagnetic waves into electrostatic modes in cold, magnetized and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kihong Kim , Dong-Hun Lee

We study the physical consequences of two diffferent but closely related perturbation schemes applied to the Einstein-Maxwell equations. In one case the starting space-time is flat while in the other case it is Schwarzschild. In both cases…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-09 T. M. Adamo , E. T. Newman

A mathematical derivation of Maxwell's equations for gravitation, based on a mathematical proof of Faraday's Law, is presented. The theory provides a linear, relativistic Lagrangian field theory of gravity in a weak field, and paves the way…

General Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 D. H. Sattinger

We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a chiral fluid, where the molecules are described by a simplified version of the Kuhn coupled oscillator model. The eigenmodes of Maxwell's equations are circularly polarized waves. The…

Physics Education · Physics 2008-03-05 T. Garel

We will provide detailed arguments showing that the set of Maxwell equations, and the corresponding wave equations, do not properly describe the evolution of electromagnetic wave-fronts. We propose a nonlinear corrected version that is…

General Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 D. Funaro

Applications of the covariant theory of drive-forms are considered for a class of perfectly insulating media. The distinction between the notions of "classical photons" in homogeneous bounded and unbounded stationary media and in stationary…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Shin-itiro Goto , Robin W. Tucker , Timothy J. Walton

In this paper, we develop a new integral representation for the solution of the time harmonic Maxwell equations in media with piecewise constant dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability in R^3. This representation leads to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-05-18 Charles L. Epstein , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil

A short review of the problems which arise in the generalization of the Lifshitz theory of van der Waals force in the case of forces inside dielectric media is presented, together with some historical remarks. General properties of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lev P. Pitaevskii

A new category of "intrinsic" effects is proposed to be added to the two already known kinematic and dynamical categories. An example of intrinsic effect is predicted, its origin source is established, and a scheme of its experimental…

General Physics · Physics 2010-04-02 Nikolai V. Mitskievich

This paper extends approach of our joint paper with K\"{a}hler and recent paper of the author, published in 2021, on problems of the static Maxwell system in three dimensional inhomogeneous media. Applied pseudoanalytic function theory…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Dmitry Bryukhov

Many papers have been published over the years that either conjecture or even (claim to) prove the universality of the form of Maxwell's equations. We present yet another derivation of Maxwell's equations and discuss the conclusions…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 C. Baumgarten

This paper is the first in a series revisiting the Faraday effect, or more generally, the theory of electronic quantum transport/optical response in bulk media in the presence of a constant magnetic field. The independent electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Horia D. Cornean , G. Nenciu , Thomas G. Pedersen

A new representation for solutions of Maxwell's equations is derived. Instead of being expanded in plane waves, the solutions are given as linear superpositions of spherical wavelets dynamically adapted to the Maxwell field and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerald Kaiser

Within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, general expressions for the Casimir force acting on linearly and causally responding magnetodielectric bodies that can be embedded in another linear and causal magnetodielectric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Christian Raabe , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

In electrodynamics courses and textbooks the properties of plane electromagnetic waves in both conducting and non-conducting media are typically studied from the point of view of the prototype case of a monochromatic plane wave. In this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 C. J. Papachristou