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An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

We consider the effect of an array of plates or beams over a semi-infinite elastic ground on the propagation of elastic waves hitting the interface. The plates/beams are slender bodies with flexural resonances at low frequencies able to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jean-Jacques Marigo , Kim Pham , Agnès Maurel , Sébastien Guenneau

A photon-like wavepacket based on novel solutions of Maxwell's equations is proposed. It is believed to be the first 'classical' model that contains so many of the accepted quantum features. In this new work, novel solutions to Maxwell's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John E. Carroll

The goal of this article is to establish general principles for high frequency dispersive estimates for Maxwell's equation in the exterior of a perfectly conducting ball. We construct entirely new generalized eigenfunctions for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Alden Waters , Yan-Long Fang

We find a new set of exact solutions to Maxwell's equations in space--time varying materials, where the refractive index is constant, while the impedance exhibits effective motion, i.e. it is a function of $x-vt$. We find that waves…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-16 Mingjie Li , S. A. R. Horsley

It is shown in linear approximation that in the case of one-dimensional problem of transverse electron waves in a half-infinite slab of homogeneous Maxwellian collisionless plasma with the given boundary field frequency two wave branches of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 V. N. Soshnikov

We interpret the forward Maxwell equation with up to third order induced polarizations and get so called nonlinear wave equation in frequency domain (NWEF), which is based on Maxwell wave equation and using slowly varying spectral amplitude…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-09 Hairun Guo , Xianglong Zeng , Morten Bache

We are interested in the homogenization of energy like quantities in electromagnetism. We prove a general propagation Theorem for H-measures associated to Maxwell's system, in the full space $\Omega =\R^{3}$, without boundary conditions. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Hassan Taha

For over 70 years it has been assumed that scalar wave propagation in (ensemble-averaged) random particulate materials can be characterised by a single effective wavenumber. Here, however, we show that there exist many effective…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Artur Lewis Gower , William J. Parnell , Ian David Abrahams

Effective medium theory aims to describe a complex inhomogeneous material in terms of a few important macroscopic parameters. To characterise wave propagation through an inhomogeneous material, the most crucial parameter is the effective…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Artur Lewis Gower , Ian David Abrahams , William J. Parnell

Scattering of electromagnetic waves by many small particles of arbitrary shapes is reduced rigorously to solving linear algebraic system of equations bypassing the usual usage of integral equations. The matrix elements of this linear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Ramm

A method is proposed for the analysis of the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a homogeneous slab of a medium with Drude-Lorentz dispersion behavior, and excited by a causal sinusoidal source. An expression of the time dependent…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-13 Mohamed Ismail , Boris Gralak

The Lorenz--Mie formulation of electromagnetic scattering by a homogeneous, isotropic, dielectric-magnetic sphere was extended to incorporate topologically insulating surface states characterized by a surface admittance $\gamma$.…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-31 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Tom G. Mackay

We study long range propagation of electromagnetic waves in random waveguides with rectangular cross-section and perfectly conducting boundaries. The waveguide is filled with an isotropic linear dielectric material, with randomly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-21 Ricardo Alonso , Liliana Borcea

Layered media can be used as acoustic filters, allowing only waves of certain frequencies to propagate. In soft magneto-active laminates, the shear wave band gaps (i.e., the frequency intervals for which shear waves cannot propagate) can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Harold Berjamin , Stephan Rudykh

The curved spacetime Maxwell equations are applied to the anisotropically expanding Kasner metrics. Using the application of vector identities we derive 2$^\textrm{nd}$-order differential wave equations for the electromagnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-08 Brett Bochner

We consider the problem of homogenizing the Maxwell equations for periodic composites. The analysis is based on Bloch-Floquet theory. We calculate explicitly the reflection coefficient for a half-space, and derive and implement a…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 Vadim A. Markel , John C. Schotland

We analyze a homogenization limit for the linear wave equation of second order. The spatial operator is assumed to be of divergence form with an oscillatory coefficient matrix $a^\varepsilon$ that is periodic with characteristic length…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Tomas Dohnal , Agnes Lamacz , Ben Schweizer

This work relates quantitatively homogenization to Anderson localization for acoustic operators in disordered media. By blending dispersive estimates for homogenized operators and quantitative homogenization of the wave equation, we derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Mitia Duerinckx , Antoine Gloria

In this paper we suggest a simple analytical method for description of electromagnetic properties of a geometrically regular two-dimensional subwavelength arrays (metasurfaces) formed by particles with randomly fluctuating polarizabilities.…