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To better understanding the principal features of collisionless damping/growing plasma waves we have implemented a demonstrative calculation for the simplest cases of electron waves in two-stream plasmas with the delta-function type…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-08-07 V. N. Soshnikov

The propagation of compressional MHD waves is studied for an externally driven system. It is assumed that the combined action of the external sources and sinks of the entropy results in the harmonic oscillation of the entropy (and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 B. M. Shergelashvili , C. Maes , S. Poedts , T. V. Zaqarashvili

Surface-plasmon-polariton~(SPP) wave propagation guided by a metal slab in a periodically nonhomogeneous sculptured nematic thin film~(SNTF) was studied theoretically. The morphologically significant planes of the SNTF on both sides of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Muhammad Faryad , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Self-assembled Au atomic wires on stepped Si surfaces are metallic, as evidenced by a one-dimensionally dispersing plasmonic excitation. Here we investigate the effects of oxidization on metallicity along such Au atomic wires on a regularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Z. Mamiyev , M. Tzschoppe , C. Huck , A. Pucci , H. Pfnür

We derived a dispersion relation of a surface wave at a rough metal-air interface. In contrast to previous publications, we assumed that an intrinsic surface impedance due to a finite electric conductivity of the metal can be of the same…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-07 Igor Kotelnikov , Gennady Stupakov

We investigate surface plasmon amplification in a silver nanoparticle coupled to an externally driven three-level gain medium, and show that quantum coherence significantly enhances the generation of surface plasmons. Surface plasmon…

The planar interface of a metal and a hyperbolic, dielectric, structurally chiral material can support the propagation of none, one, or multiple surface-plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves, at a specified frequency and along a specified direction…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-23 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Muhammad Faryad

We study the response of a semi-bounded one-component fully degenerate electron plasma to an initial perturbation in the electrostatic limit. We show that the part of the electric potential corresponding to surface waves in such plasma can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Roman Kompaneets , Sergey V. Vladimirov

Different electron acceleration regimes in the evanescent field of a surface plasma wave are studied by considering the interaction of a test electron with the high-frequency electromagnetic field of a surface wave. The non-relativistic and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 C. Riconda , M. Raynaud , T. Vialis , M. Grech

A microscopic theory of the plasma resonance in layered metals is presented. It is shown that electron-impurity scattering can suppress the plasma resonance in the normal state and sharpen it in the superconducting state. Analytic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 S. V. Pokrovsky , V. L. Pokrovsky

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) hold a vast potential in various fields such as spintronics, quantum acoustics, and electron-quantum optics, but an electromagnetic wave emanating from SAW generation circuits has often been a major hurdle.…

A low loss propagating electromagnetic wave is shown to exist at a gradual interface between two lossy conductive media. The electromagnetic frequency range of this phenomenon may span from UV optics to RF range. In particular, it is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Igor I. Smolyaninov

The dielectric properties of complex plasma containing either metal or dielectric spherical inclusions (macroparticles, dust) are investigated. We focus on surface plasmon resonances on the macroparticle surfaces and their effect on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 S. V. Vladimirov , O. Ishihara

We have detected the presence of very high intensity surface waves that are excited during plasma waveguided laser wakefield acceleration. Wakefield acceleration can be enchanced by the introduction of an ``all optical" plasma waveguide…

Using an analytical model we discuss the parametric excitation of pairs of electron surface waves (ESW) in the interaction of an ultrashort, intense laser pulse with an overdense plasma which has a step-like density profile. The ESWs can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrea Macchi , Fulvio Cornolti , Francesco Pegoraro

Internal waves are an important feature of stratified fluids, both in oceanic and lake basins and in other settings. Many works have been published on the generic feature of internal wave trapping onto planar wave attractors and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-01 Nimrod Bratspiess , Eyal Heifetz , Leo R. M. Maas

As an attempt to develop a reconfigurable surface architecture that can use liquid metal such as Galinstan to shape surface channels on demand, this paper considers a punctured surface where cavities are evenly distributed and can be filled…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Z. Chu , K. K. Wong , K. F. Tong

The influence of surface plasma waves (SPW) on high harmonic generation (HHG) from the interaction of intense lasers with overdense plasma is analyzed. It is shown, that the surface waves lead to the emission of harmonics away from the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-08-10 Daniel an der Brügge , Naveen Kumar , Alexander Pukhov , Christian Rödel

Metals such as silver support surface plasmons: electromagnetic surface excitations localised near the surface which originate from the free electrons of the metal. Surface modes are also observed on highly conducting surfaces perforated by…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-08 JB Pendry , L Martin-Moreno , FJ Garcia-Vidal

We propose an experiment to observe interference of a single electron as it is transported along two parallel quasi-one-dimensional channels trapped in a single minimum of a travelling periodic electric field. The experimental device is a…