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We investigate the transfer function of the discretized perfect lens in finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) and transfer matrix (TMM) simulations; the latter allow to eliminate the problems associated with the explicit time dependence in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Th. Koschny , R. Moussa , C. M. Soukoulis

This paper presents a new time-domain finite-element approach for modelling thin sheets with hyperbolic basis functions derived from the well-known steady-state solution of the linear flux diffusion equation. The combination of solutions at…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Bruno de Sousa Alves , Ruth V. Sabariego , Marc Laforest , Frédéric Sirois

We introduce the concept and a generic approach to realize Extreme Huygens' Metasurfaces by bridging the concepts of Huygens' conditions and optical bound states in the continuum. This novel paradigm allows creating Huygens' metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-04 Mingkai Liu , Duk-Yong Choi

An alternative way of visualizing electromagnetic waves in matter and of deriving the Finite Difference Time Domain method (FDTD) for simulating Maxwell's equations for one dimensional systems is presented. The method uses d'Alembert's…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-24 Ross Hyman , Nathaniel Stern , Allen Taflove

We formulate a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) approach to simulate electromagnetic wave scattering from scatterers embedded in layered dielectric or dispersive media. At the heart of our approach is a derivation of an equivalent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Lingxiao Zhang , Tamar Seideman

We consider discrete-time (DT) systems S in which a DT input is first tranformed to a continuous-time (CT) format by phase-amplitude modulation, then modified by a non-linear CT dynamical transformation F, and finally converted back to DT…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-11-06 Omer Tanovic , Alexandre Megretski , Yan Li , Vladimir M. Stojanovic , Mitra Osqui

A class of nonstandard pseudospectral time domain (PSTD) schemes for solving time-dependent hyperbolic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) is introduced. These schemes use the Fourier collocation spectral method to compute…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Bradley E. Treeby , Elliott S. Wise , B. T. Cox

A multifield asymptotic homogenization technique for periodic thermo-diffusive elastic materials is provided in the present study. Field equations for the first-order equivalent medium are derived and overall constitutive tensors are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-02-27 Francesca Fantoni , Andrea Bacigalupo

A Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) scheme with Perfectly Matched Layers (PMLs) is considered for solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation, and simulate the ionization of an electron initially bound to a one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-02 Høgni C. Kamban , Sigurd S. Christensen , Thomas Søndergaard , Thomas G. Pedersen

This paper proposes an efficient FDTD technique for determining electromagnetic fields interacting with a finite-sized 2D and 3D periodic structures. The technique combines periodic boundary conditions---modelling fields away from the edges…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Aaron J. Kogon , Costas D. Sarris

The most popular methods for self-consistent simulation of fields interacting with charged species is using finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods together with Newton's laws of motion to evolve locations and velocities of particles.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Zane D. Crawford , O. H. Ramachandran , Scott O'Connor , Daniel L. Dault , John Luginsland , B. Shanker

The finite difference time domain (FDTD) algorithm and Green function algorithm are implemented into the numerical simulation of electromagnetic scattering by ordinary objects in Schwarzschild space-time. FDTD method in curved space-time is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Shouqing Jia

We consider the time dependent dispersion properties of overdamped tracer particles diffusing in a one dimensional periodic potential under the influence of an additional constant tilting force $F$. The system is studied in the region where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 T. Guérin , D. S. Dean

In this paper, we propose a novel numerical method for modeling nanostructures containing dispersive and nonlinear two-dimensional (2D) materials, by incorporating a nonlinear generalized source (GS) into the finite-difference time-domain…

We prove the possibility of achieving unidirectional edge modes in time-modulated supercell structures. Such finite structures consist of two trimers repeated periodically. Because of their symmetry, they admit degenerate edge eigenspaces.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao

This study presents a finite difference method (FDM) to model the electromagnetic field propagation in eccentric coaxial waveguides filled with lossy uniaxially anisotropic media. The formulation utilizes conformal transformation to map the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Raul O. Ribeiro , Maria A. Martinez , Guilherme S. Rosa , Rafael A. Penchel

This work continues the development of the raytracing method of [1] for computing the scattered fields from metasurfaces characterized by locally periodic reflection and transmission coefficients. In this work, instead of describing the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Scott Stewart , Yvo L. C. de Jong , Tom J. Smy , Shulabh Gupta

In this paper, we study the dynamic formation of transients when plane waves impinge on a dispersive slab that abruptly changes its electrical properties in time. The time-varying slab alternates between air and metal-like states, whose…

This work develops a dynamic homogenization approach for metamaterials. It finds an approximate macroscopic homogenized equation with constant coefficients posed in space and time; however, the resulting homogenized equation is higher order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Kshiteej Deshmukh , Timothy Breitzman , Kaushik Dayal

Metamaterials and metasurfaces are designed by periodically arranged subwavelength geometries, allowing a tailored manipulation of the electromagnetic response of matter. Here, we exploit temporal variations of permittivity inside…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta