English
Related papers

Related papers: Topological non-Hermitian origin of surface Maxwel…

200 papers

Time has entered the domain of topological phases in the field of non-Hermitian physics. Previous studies have relied on periodic modulation in time to make an intuitive connection to established spatial topological invariants, albeit with…

Control of the electromagnetic waves in nano-scale structured materials is central to the development of next generation photonic circuits and devices. In this context, hyperbolic metamaterials, where elliptical isofrequency surfaces are…

A theoretical framework is developed to describe the Topological Langmuir-Cyclotron Wave (TLCW), a recently identified topological surface excitation in magnetized plasmas. As a topological wave, the TLCW propagates unidirectionally without…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Hong Qin , Yichen Fu

We predict that the interface of materials with defocusing thermal nonlinearities support stable fundamental and higher-order surface waves when the opposite edges of the medium are maintained at different temperatures. Such surface waves…

It is shown that the Maxwell's equations for surface electromagnetic TM-waves, propagating along the plane boundary between two nonlinear dielectrics with arbitrary diagonal tensor of dielectric permittivity, depending of |{\bf E}|, can be…

atom-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 Yu. P. Rybakov , B. Saha

Topology is central to understanding and engineering materials that display robust physical phenomena immune to imperfections. Different topological phases of matter are characterised by topological invariants. In energy-conserving…

Whereas electromagnetic surface waves are confined to a planar interface between two media, line waves exist at the one-dimensional interface between three materials. Here we derive a non-local integral equation for computing the properties…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-23 S. A. R. Horsley , A. Dwivedi

Topological materials exhibit edge-localized scattering-free modes protected by their nontrivial bulk topology through the bulk-edge correspondence in Hermitian systems. While topological phenomena have recently been much investigated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Kazuki Sone , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa

The interplay between topological localization and non-Hermiticity localization in non-Hermitian crystal systems results in a diversity of shapes of topological edge modes (EMs), offering opportunities to manipulate these modes for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Zihe Yang , Kunling Zhou , Bowen Zeng , Yong Hu

The central idea of metamaterials and metaoptics is that, besides their base materials, the geometry of structures offers a broad extra dimension to explore for exotic functionalities. Here, we discover that the topology of structures…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-21 Jie Peng , Ruo-Yang Zhang , Shiqi Jia , Wei Liu , Shubo Wang

Nontrivial topology in bulk matter has been linked with the existence of topologically protected interfacial states. We show that a gaseous plasmon polariton (GPP), an electromagnetic surface wave existing at the boundary of magnetized…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Jeffrey B. Parker , J. B. Marston , Steven M. Tobias , Ziyan Zhu

Metasurfaces are promising two-dimensional metamaterials that are engineered to provide unique properties or functionalities absent in naturally occurring homogeneous surfaces. Here, we report a type of metasurface for tailored…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 Jiao Lin , Qian Wang , Guanghui Yuan , Luping Du , Shan Shan Kou , Xiao-Cong Yuan

An inverse obstacle scattering problem for the electromagnetic wave governed by the Maxwell system over a finite time interval is considered. It is assumed that the wave satisfies the Leontovich boundary condition on the surface of an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Masaru Ikehata

Solids built out of active components can exhibit non-reciprocal elastic coefficients that give rise to non-Hermitian wave phenomena. Here, we investigate non-Hermitian effects present at the boundary of two-dimensional active elastic media…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-16 Colin Scheibner , William T. M. Irvine , Vincenzo Vitelli

The helicon waves exhibit varying characters depending on plasma parameters, geometry, and wave numbers. Here we elucidate an intrinsic multi-scale property embodied by the combination of dispersive effect and nonlinearity. The extended…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-10-24 Hamdi M. Abdelhamid , Zensho Yoshida

Elastic wave manipulation is important in a wide variety of scales in applications including information processing in tiny elastic devices and noise control in big solid structures. The recent emergence of topological materials opens a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-05 Ying Wu , Jiuyang Lu , Xueqin Huang , Yating Yang , Li Luo , Linyun Yang , Feng Li , Weiyin Deng , Zhengyou Liu

Propagation of the surface waves on the interface between an uniaxial hyperbolic material and an isotopical topological insulator is studied. The cases of the anisotropy axes is normal to interface or one is coplanar to interface are…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-20 Ekaterina Lyashko , Andrei Maimistov , Ildar Gabitov

We establish non-Hermitian topological mechanics in one dimensional (1D) and two dimensional (2D) lattices consisting of mass points connected by meta-beams that lead to odd elasticity. Extended from the "non-Hermitian skin effect" in 1D…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 Di Zhou , Junyi Zhang

Topological acoustic and elastic waves have recently emerged as an exciting interdisciplinary field which is still mainly focused on low-dimensional structures and model systems. Here we demonstrate numerically an elastic-wave analogue of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Zhan Xiong , Hai-Xiao Wang , Jinjie Shi , Jie Luo , Yun Lai , Ming-Hui Lu , Jian-Hua Jiang

Colliding or noncolliding plane fronted electromagnetic or gravitational waves are the asymptotic limit of Robinson--Trautman spherical electromagnetic or gravitational waves. Noncolliding plane fronted waves contain no information about…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-03 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld