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It is shown that a sub-luminal electromagnetic plasma wave, propagating in phase with a background sub-luminal gravitational wave in a dispersive medium, can undergo parametric amplification. For this phenomena to occur, the dispersive…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Swadesh M. Mahajan , Felipe A. Asenjo

Recent theoretical studies revealed the existence of topologically-protected surface plasma waves (TSPWs) in cold magnetized plasmas assumed uniform along the direction of a uniaxial magnetic field. Reflections-free propagation of the TSPWs…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Roopendra Singh Rajawat , Gennady Shvets

We analytically examine the excitation of surface Josephson plasma waves (SJPWs) in periodically-modulated layered superconductors. We show that the absorption of the incident electromagnetic wave can be substantially increased, for certain…

Surface waves on a thin metal filament are described in terms of quantum electrodynamics. The interaction of surface waves with a quantum oscillator is discussed in the dipole approximation. The increase in the spontaneous emission rate of…

Optics · Physics 2010-01-05 V. V. Lidsky

Ultra-short high-power lasers can deliver extreme light intensities ($\ge 10^{20}$ W/cm$^2$ and $\leq 30 f$s) and drive large amplitude Surface Plasma Wave (SPW) at over-dense plasma surface. The resulting current of energetic electron has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 S. Marini , P. S. Kleij , F. Amiranoff , M. Grech , C. Riconda , M. Raynaud

Parametric amplification offers a route to overcoming intrinsic damping in spin-wave systems, a key challenge in the development of magnonic signal processing and computing technologies. Here we demonstrate the sustained amplification of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-22 Carson Rivard , Albrecht Jander , Pallavi Dhagat

Using a high-resolution X-Ray diffraction measurement method, the surface acoustic waves (SAW) propagation in a graphene film on the surface of a Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 (CTGS) piezoelectric crystal was investigated, where an external current was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Z. Insepov , E. Emelin , O. Kononenko , D. V. Roshchupkin , K. B. Tnyshtykbayev , K. A. Baigarin

We investigate the dispersion properties of the acoustic surface waves on surface of elastic metamaterials. With an analytical approach, we show that unconventional acoustic surface waves, with dispersion behaviors very similar to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-01-06 Ke Deng , Zhaojian He , Yiqun Ding , Heping Zhao , Zhengyou Liu

In this work, we generalize the theory of localized surface plasmons to the case of high-Tc cuprate superconductors, spatially confined in the form of small spherical particles. At variance from ordinary metals, cuprate superconductors are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-20 Filippo Alpeggiani , Lucio Claudio Andreani

Recent extension of the topological ideas to continuous systems with broken time-reversal symmetry, such as magnetized plasmas, provides new insights into the nature of scattering-free topologically-protected surface plasma waves (TSPWs).…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Roopendra Singh Rajawat , V. Khudik , G. Shvets

We investigate single interface surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) excited by electromagnetic waves under general electromagnetic boundary conditions that allow for non-zero surface charge and surface current densities. Incorporating these,…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-16 Weiguo Yang , Michael A. Fiddy

Two-surface wave decay (TSWD), i.e. the parametric excitation of electron surface waves, was recently proposed as an absorption mechanism in the interaction of ultrashort, intense laser pulses with solid targets. We present an extension of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Macchi , M. Battaglini , F. Cattani , F. Cornolti

In this work we develop a theory of surface electromagnetic waves localized at the interface of periodic metal-dielectric structures. We have shown that the anisotropy of plasma frequency in metal layers lifts the degeneracy of plasma…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-19 K. U. Golenitskii , K. L. Koshelev , A. A. Bogdanov

We have shown both experimentally and theoretically that polarization-independent broad-band absorption of electromagnetic waves by an overdense plasma, caused by surface plasmon-polaritons (SPP) excitation, can be achieved due to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-08-23 Y. P. Bliokh , Yu. L. Brodsky , Kh. B. Chashka , J. Felsteiner , Ya. Z. Slutsker

Interaction of external monochromatic, linearly polorized plane EM-wave with nonlinear one-dimensional wake wave, generated by relativistic electron bunch moving in cold plasma, is considered. At definite conditions on parameters of plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ts. Amatuni

The inclusion of semiconducting material within a composite barrier enables the perfectly uniform propagation of surface ionization waves (SIW) in air at atmospheric pressure regardless of the polarity of the applied electric field, unlike…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Thomas Orrière , David Z. Pai

We review the properties of the surface waves that are scattered by two-dimensional sub-wavelength indentations on metallic surfaces. We show that two distinct waves are involved, a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) and a quasi-cylindrical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-14 P. Lalanne , J. P. Hugonin , H. T. Liu , B. Wang

We review studies of superintense laser interaction with solid targets where the generation of propagating surface plasmons (or surface waves) plays a key role. These studies include the onset of plasma instabilities at the irradiated…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 A. Macchi

In this presentation, we analytically derive the dispersion equation for surface waves traveling along reactive boundaries which are periodically modulated in time. In addition, we show numerical results for the dispersion curves and…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-03 Xuchen Wang , Mohammad S. Mirmoosa , Sergei A. Tretyakov

In this paper, we address the theoretical resolution of the Vlasov-Gauss system from the linear regime to the strongly nonlinear one, when significant trapping has occurred. The electric field is that of a sinusoidal electron plasma wave…

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