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Nonreciprocal thermal emission is a cutting-edge technology that enables fundamental control over thermal radiation and has exciting applications in thermal energy harvesting. However, so far one of the foremost challenges is making…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-03 A. Butler , C. Argyropoulos

Negative refraction is such a prominent electromagnetic phenomenon that most researchers believe it can only occur in artificially engineered metamaterials. In this article, we report negative refraction for all incident angles for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-02-02 Jingbo Sun , Ji Zhou , Lei Kang , Rui Wang , Xianguo Meng , Bo Li , Feiyu Kang , Longtu Li

Alfv\'en waves propagate in electrically conducting fluids in the presence of a magnetic field. Their reflection properties depend on the ratio between the kinematic viscosity and the magnetic diffusivity of the fluid, also known as the…

Geophysics · Physics 2012-10-17 Nathanaël Schaeffer , Dominique Jault , Philippe Cardin , Marie Drouard

We demonstrate that homogeneous naturally-occurring materials can form non-magnetic negative refractive index systems, and present specific realizations of the proposed approach for the THz and far-IR frequencies. The proposed structure…

Weyl semimetals host topologically protected surface states, with arced Fermi surface contours that are predicted to propagate through the bulk when their momentum matches that of the surface projections of the bulk's Weyl nodes. We use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Hiroyuki Inoue , Andras Gyenis , Zhijun Wang , Jian Li , Seong Woo Oh , Shan Jiang , Ni Ni , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

We present systematic theoretical studies of both bulk and surface electromagnetic eigenmodes, or polaritons, in Weyl semimetals. We derive the tensors of bulk and surface conductivity taking into account all possible combinations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Qianfan Chen , A. Ryan Kutayiah , Ivan Oladyshkin , Mikhail Tokman , Alexey Belyanin

Wireless communication using fully passive metal reflectors is a promising technique for coverage expansion, signal enhancement, rank improvement and blind-zone compensation, thanks to its appealing features including zero energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Zhi Yu , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Teng Li , Shi Jin

Weyl semimetals are recently discovered materials supporting emergent relativistic fermions in the vicinity of band-crossing points known as Weyl nodes. The positions of the nodes and the low-energy spectrum depend sensitively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

Massless chiral fermions emergent in inversion symmetry-breaking Weyl semimetals (WSMs) reside in the vicinity of multiple low symmetry nodes and thus acquire strongly anisotropic dispersion. We investigate the longitudinal electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 A. N. Afanasiev , A. A. Greshnov , D. Svintsov

We report on experimental and numerical implementations of devices based on the negative refraction of elastic guided waves, the so-called Lamb waves. Consisting in plates of varying thickness, these devices rely on the concept of…

Conventional mirrors obey Snell's reflection law: a plane wave is reflected as a plane wave, at the same angle. To engineer spatial distributions of fields reflected from a mirror, one can either shape the reflector (for example, creating a…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-11 V. S. Asadchy , Y. Radi , J. Vehmas , S. A. Tretyakov

Weyl semimetals typically appear in systems in which either time-reversal (T) or inversion (P}) symmetry are broken. Here we show that in the presence of gauge potentials these topological states of matter can also arise in fermionic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-08 L. Lepori , I. C. Fulga , A. Trombettoni , M. Burrello

When an oscillating line source is placed in front of a special mirror consisting of an array of flat uniformly spaced ferrite rods, half of the image disappeared at some frequency. We believe that this comes from the coupling to photonic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-20 Shiyang Liu , Wanli Lu , Zhifang Lin , S. T. Chui

We calculate the index of refraction of sodium matter waves propagating through a gas of nitrogen molecules. We use a recent ab initio potential for the ground state of the NaN_2 Van der Waals complex to perform quantal close-coupling…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Loreau , V. Kharchenko , A. Dalgarno

Negative refraction and left-handed electromagnetism in a metallic photonic crystal (PC) wedge are demonstrated in free space for both transverse magnetic and electric mode propagation. The experimental results are in excellent agreement…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Vodo , P. V. Parimi , W. T. Lu , R. Wing , S. Sridhar

When an electromagnetic (EM) wave is propagating in a medium whose properties are varied abruptly in time, the wave experiences refractions and reflections known as "time-refractions" and "time-reflections", both manifesting spectral…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Thomas R. Jones , Alexander V. Kildishev , Mordechai Segev , Dimitrios Peroulis

A general algorithm for calculating the reflection and refraction of nonuniform plane waves from an arbitrarily oriented and charged planar interface between two lossy isotropic media is proposed based on the decomposition of the complex…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Zhili Lin

The ability to break Kirchhoff s law is of fundamental importance in thermal radiation. Various nonreciprocal emitters have been proposed to break the balance between absorption and emission. However, the thicknesses of the nonreciprocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Jun Wu , Zhongmin Wang , Han Zhai , Zhangxing Shi , Xiaohu Wu , Feng Wu

Possibilities to realize a negative refraction in chiral composites in in dual-phase mixtures of chiral and dipole particles is studied. It is shown that because of strong resonant interaction between chiral particles (helixes) and dipoles,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Tretyakov , A. Sihvola , L. Jylha

The magnetotransport properties of disordered ferromagnetic Weyl semimetals are investigated numerically. We found an extraordinarily stable and huge magnetoresistance effect in domain walls of Weyl semimetals. This effect originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Koji Kobayashi , Yuya Ominato , Kentaro Nomura