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The control of reflection and refraction at interfaces using engineered media is central to numerous optical technologies, with negative refraction and the suppression of backscattering representing two prominent research frontiers. In this…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yongge Wang , Jingfeng Yao , Chengxun Yuan , Zhongxiang Zhou

A condition, at which the one-dimensional inverse power potential becomes reflectionless during propagation through it of a plane wave, is obtained on the basis of SUSY QM methods. A scattering of a particle on spherically symmetric inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei P. Maydanyuk

We report unambiguous experimental evidence of broken time reversal symmetry for the interaction of light with an artificial non-magnetic material. Polarized colour images of planar chiral gold-on-silicon nanostructures consisting of arrays…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Schwanecke , A. Krasavin , D. M. Bagnall , A. Potts , A. V. Zayats , N. I. Zheludev

We informally review the construction of spacetime geometries with multifractal and, more generally, multiscale properties. Based on fractional calculus, these continuous spacetimes have their dimension changing with the scale; they display…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-10 Gianluca Calcagni

This paper investigates an inverse source problem for space-time fractional diffusion equations from a posteriori interior measurements. The uniqueness result is established by the memory effect of fractional derivatives and the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Kai Yu , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu

The polarization properties of perfectly periodical and defective one-dimensional photonic bandgap structures with nonreciprocal chiral (bi-isotropic) layers are studied. The method of solution is based on the 2x2-block-representation…

Optics · Physics 2010-02-04 Vladimir R. Tuz

In this article, we consider the diffusion equation with multi-term time-fractional derivatives. We first derive that the solution is positive when the source term is nonpositive by a subordination principle for the solution. As an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Xiaona Yang , Zhiyuan Li

In this article we study the retrospective inverse problem. The retrospective inverse problem consists of in the reconstruction of a priori unknown initial condition of the dynamic system from its known final condition. Existence and…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-09-19 Oleg Yaremko

We introduce here the concept of establishing Parity-time symmetry through a gauge transformation involving a shift of the mirror plane for the Parity operation. The corresponding unitary transformation on the system's constitutive matrix…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 James Gear , Yong Sun , Shiyi Xiao , Liwen Zhang , Richard Fitzgerald , Stefan Rotter , Hong Chen , Jensen Li

We introduce a new type of lens that focuses a plane wave into a spherical one, where light comes from all directions. Our method also suggests the design of ideal optical tweezers or, in the reverse direction, photo-detection of nearly all…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Shay Rabani , Kirill Shvalb , Boris Malomed , Tal Carmon

This paper deals with differential pencils possessing a term depending on the unknown function with a fixed argument. We deduce the so called main equation together with its fine structure for the spectral problem. Then, according to the…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Yi-teng Hu , Murat Sat

The inverse Faraday effect is a magneto-optical process allowing the magnetization of matter by an optical excitation carrying a non-zero spin or orbital moment of light. This phenomenon was considered until now as symmetric; right or left…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-18 Ye Mou , Xingyu Yang , Bruno Gallas , Mathieu Mivelle

We present the development of extended diffraction tomography, a new approach to the solution of the linear seismic waveform inversion problem. This method has several appealing features, such as the use of arbitrary depth-dependent…

Geophysics · Physics 2009-05-05 R. B. Schlottmann

The Fourier inversion of phased coherent diffraction patterns offers images without the resolution and depth-of-focus limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. We report on our recent experimental images inverted using recent…

Scattering from a non-smooth random field on the time domain is studied for plane waves that propagate simultaneously through the potential in variable angles. We first derive sufficient conditions for stochastic moments of the field to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Pedro Caro , Tapio Helin , Antti Kujanpää , Matti Lassas

The relation between the angular transverse shifts of the beams reflected and transmitted at a plane interface of two isotropic transparent media is established. The derivation of this relation is based on the conservation law of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. G. Fedoseyev

Polarization control and switchability are among the most unique features of "metasurfaces" as compared with diffractive optics technologies of the past. Here, we review how the polarization control afforded by the advent of present-day…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-21 Noah A. Rubin , Yeshaiahu Fainman

We study the time-reflection and time-refraction of waves caused by a spatial interface with a medium undergoing a sudden temporal change in permittivity. We show that monochromatic waves are transformed into a pulse by the permittivity…

In this paper, we first establish a weak unique continuation property for time-fractional diffusion-advection equations. The proof is mainly based on the Laplace transform and the unique continuation properties for elliptic and parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-12 Daijun Jiang , Zhiyuan Li , Yikan Liu , Masahiro Yamamoto

Absolute negative refraction regions for both polarizations of electromagnetic wave in two-dimensional photonic crystal have been found through both the analysis and the exact numerical simulation. Especially, absolute all-angle negative…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiangdong Zhang