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Wave absorption in time-invariant, passive thin films is fundamentally limited by a trade-off between bandwidth and overall thickness. In this work, we investigate the use of temporal switching to reduce signal reflections from a thin…
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We derive upper and lower bounds on the absorption of ultraintense laser light by solids as a function of fundamental laser and plasma parameters. These limits emerge naturally from constrained optimization techniques applied to a…
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Building on the hyperboloidal foliation approach of Lefloch and Ma, we extend Klainerman's physical-space approach to dispersive estimates to recover the frequency-restricted $L^1$--$L^\infty$ dispersive estimates for Klein-Gordon…
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The effect of an oscillating electric field normal to a metallic surface may be described by an effective potential. This induced potential is calculated using semiclassical variants of the random phase approximation (RPA). Results are…
We investigate scattering, localization and dispersive time-decay properties for the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with a rapidly oscillating and spatially localized potential, $q_\epsilon=q(x,x/\epsilon)$, where $q(x,y)$ is…
We consider the problem of numerically solving the Schr\"odinger equation with a potential that is quasi periodic in space and time. We introduce a numerical scheme based on a newly developed multi-time scale and averaging technique. We…
We study the capabilities of time-modulated diffraction gratings as imaging devices. It is shown that a time-dependent but transversally homogeneous slab can be used to make a perfect image of an object in the far-field, since all the…
Using the simplest but fundamental example, the problem of the infinite potential well, this paper makes an ideological attempt (supported by rigorous mathematical proofs) to approach the issue of…
We consider the relativistic Schr\"odinger (Gordon-Klein) equation with a time dependent vector and a scalar potential on a bounded cylindrical domain. Using a standard Geometric Optics Ansatz, we establish a logarithmic stability estimate…
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The idealized theory of quantum vacuum energy density is a beautiful application of the spectral theory of differential operators with boundary conditions, but its conclusions are physically unacceptable. A more plausible model of a…