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Multiple scattering theory is applied to the study of clusters of point-like scatterers attached to a thin elastic plate and arranged in quasi-periodic distributions. Two type of structures are specifically considered: the twisted bilayer…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Marc Martí-Sabaté , Sébastien Guenneau , Dani Torrent

In ordinary circumstances the highest frequency present in a wave is the highest frequency in its Fourier decomposition. It is however possible for there to be a spatial or temporal region of the wave which locally oscillates at a still…

Metasurfaces have emerged as a promising technology for the manipulation of electromagnetic waves within a thin layer. In planar ultrathin metasurfaces, there exist rigorous narrowband design methods, based on the equivalent surface…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Ashif A. Fathnan , Andreas E. Olk , David A. Powell

In this paper, we present a general theory of aperiodic subwavelength arrays for controlling electromagnetic waves. The considered platform is formed by an array of electrically small loaded scatterers above a ground plane. While the array…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Yongming Li , Xikui Ma , Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

The dynamic toroidal dipole is a unique radiation source beyond standard multipoles. Since its first demonstration 15 years ago, it has attracted growing theoretical and experimental interest. Research mainly aims to enhance its weak…

This paper considers the effects of small highly contrasted particles on the subwavelength resonances of a system of high-contrast resonators, with an application to sensing. The key technique is a multiple scattering expansion of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Jinghao Cao , Jörg Nick

The exciting discovery of topological condensed matter systems has lately triggered a search for their photonic analogs, motivated by the possibility of robust backscattering-immune light transport. However, topological photonic phases have…

We study theoretically and experimentally how to reduce the backscattering of water waves in a channel with multiple turns. We show that it is not only possible to cancel backscattering but also to achieve a remarkable transmission in such…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-11-22 Samantha Kucher , Adrian Koźluk , Philippe Petitjeans , Agnès Maurel , Vincent Pagneux

Metasurface based super absorbers exhibit near unity absorbance. While the absorption peak can be tuned by the geometry/size of the sub-wavelength resonator, broadband absorption can be obtained by placing multiple resonators of various…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-03 Arvind Nagarajan , Kumar Vivek , Manav Shah , Venu Gopal Achanta , Giampiero Gerini

The frequency dependence of the peak-valley pairs occurring in the magnetoresistivity of a two-dimensional electron system under enhanced microwave irradiation, which are considered to associate with multiphoton processes, is examined in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. L. Lei , S. Y. Liu

Plasmon resonance, with strong coupling of light to electrons at a metal-dielectric interface, allows light confinement and control at subwavelength scale. It's fundamentally limited by the inherent mobility of the electrons, leading to the…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-20 Evgenii E. Narimanov

Scattering of electrons due to fractons can result in a resistivity that {\it decreases} with temperature. Such a behavior also appears in real quasicrystals. If this is then attributed to fracton scattering, fracton-superconductivity would…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 K. Moulopoulos , F. Cyrot-Lackmann

The aim of this paper is to provide a mathematical and numerical framework for the analysis and design of bubble meta-screens. An acoustic meta-screen is a thin sheet with patterned subwavelength structures, which nevertheless has a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-10 Habib Ammari , Brian Fitzpatrick , David Gontier , Hyundae Lee , Hai Zhang

Electron-phonon interaction is of central importance for the electrical and heat transport properties of metals, and is directly responsible for charge-density-waves or (conventional) superconducting instabilities. The direct observation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-02-02 S. M. Souliou , A. Bosak , G. Garbarino , M. Le Tacon

In recent decades, scientists have developed the means to engineer synthetic periodic arrays with feature sizes below the wavelength of light. When such features are appropriately structured, electromagnetic radiation can be manipulated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-12 Justin C. W. Song , Nathaniel M. Gabor

We achieve efficient shaping of superscattering by radially anisotropic nanowires relying on resonant multipolar interferences. It is shown that the radial anisotropy of refractive index can be employed to resonantly overlap electric and…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-13 Wei Liu

'Downwards drifting' structures observed in fast radio bursts (FRBs) could naturally arise from a screen occurring after a small initial dispersion measure region. The screen imprints temporally sharp but broadband structure on the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-30 Artem Tuntsov , Ue-Li Pen , Mark Walker

We study super-Planckian near-field heat exchanges for multilayer hyperbolic metamaterials using exact S-matrix calculations. We investigate heat exchanges between two multilayer hyperbolic metamaterial structures. We show that the super-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 Svend-Age Biehs , Maria Tschikin , Riccardo Messina , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

The superscaling properties of electron scattering data are used to extract model-independent predictions for neutrino-nucleus cross sections.

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Maria B. Barbaro

The theory of acoustic wave scattering by many small bodies is developed for bodies with impedance boundary condition. It is shown that if one embeds many small particles in a bounded domain, filled with a known material, then one can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Ramm