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We consider two inverse boundary value problems for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in an infinite slab. Assuming that tangential boundary data for the electric and magnetic fields at a fixed frequency is available either on subsets of…

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Although optical metamaterials that show artificial magnetism are mesoscopic systems, they are frequently described in terms of effective material parameters. But due to intrinsic nonlocal (or spatially dispersive) effects it may be…

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

A method is described to calculate effective tensor properties of a periodic array of two-phase dielectric tubes embedded in a host matrix. The method uses Weierstrass' quasiperodic functions for representation of the potential that…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-08 Yuri A. Godin

We study the time-harmonic Maxwell equations on bounded Lipschitz domains with an impedance boundary condition. The impedance coefficient can be matrix valued such that, in particular, a polarization dependent impedance is modeled. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Ben Schweizer , David Wiedemann

Scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves by many small particles (bodies) embedded in a homogeneous medium is studied. Physical properties of the particles are described by their boundary impedances. The limiting equation is obtained for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 A. G. Ramm

We describe new configurations of electromagnetic (EM) material parameters, the electric permittivity $\epsilon$ and magnetic permeability $\mu$, that allow one to construct from metamaterials objects that function as invisible tunnels.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Greenleaf , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

In this note we consider boundary value problems in electromagnetism. We prove well-posedness results for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in the setting of Riemannian manifolds. We also consider the eigenvalue problem the homogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Yernat M. Assylbekov

Epsilon near zero (ENZ) conditions have been observed to enhance superconducting properties of a composite metamaterial based on random mixing of superconductor and ferroelectic nanoparticles. Here we analyse several other promising…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Vera N. Smolyaninova

Using the Observable form of Maxwell's equations, we reveal that effective parameters at materials boundaries emerge naturally as anisotropic transfer functions. The complexity of the boundary dictates the order of these functions.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Sameh Y. ELnaggar , Yahia. M. Antar

We apply homogenization theory to calculate the effective electric conductivity and Hall coefficient tensor of passive three-dimensionally periodic metamaterials subject to a weak external static homogeneous magnetic field. We not only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Christian Kern , Graeme W Milton , Muamer Kadic , Martin Wegener

We study the anisotropic linear Maxwell system on a bounded domain $\Omega$ with perfectly conducting boundary conditions. It is damped via a conductivity $\sigma$ which is strictly positive on a collar at the boundary. We prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Richard Nutt , Roland Schnaubelt

In the field of metamaterials, many intriguing phenomena arise from having a structure which is periodic in space. In time-dependent structures, conceptually similar properties can arise, which nevertheless have fundamentally different…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Habib Ammari , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

Anisotropic homogeneous metamaterials that are neither wholly dissipative nor wholly active at a specific frequency are permitted by classical electromagnetic theory. Well-established homogenization formalisms indicate that such a…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-22 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

A composite conductive material, which consists of fibers of a high conductivity in a matrix of low conductivity, is discussed. The effective conductivity of the system considered is calculated in Clausius-Mossotti approximation. Obtained…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-03-01 Yuri Kornyushin

In this paper, we propose an approach for describing wave propagation in finite-size microstructured metamaterials using a reduced relaxed micromorphic model. This method introduces an additional kinematic field with respect to the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Plastiras Demetriou , Gianluca Rizzi , Angela Madeo

We consider the initial-boundary value problem in the quarter space for the system of equations of ideal Magneto-Hydrodynamics for compressible fluids with perfectly conducting wall boundary conditions. On the two parts of the boundary the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Paolo Secchi

We consider for the full time-dependent Maxwell's equations the inverse problem of identifying locations and certain properties of small electromagnetic inhomogeneities in a homogeneous background medium from dynamic boundary measurements…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-08 C. Daveau , A. Khelifi

Electromagnetic waves, solving the full set of Maxwell equations in vacuum, are numerically computed. These waves occupy a fixed bounded region of the three dimensional space, topologically equivalent to a toroid. Thus, their fluid dynamics…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Claudia Chinosi , Lucia Della Croce , Daniele Funaro

Volume or statistical averaging of the microscopic Maxwell equations (MEs), i.e. transition from microscopic MEs to their macroscopic counterparts, is one of the main steps in electrodynamics of materials. In spite of the fundamental…

Optics · Physics 2011-06-21 A. Chipouline , C. Simovski , S. Tretyakov