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Supersymmetric quantum mechanics is constructed in a new non-Hermitian representation. Firstly, the map between the partner operators $H^{(\pm)}$ is chosen antilinear. Secondly, both these components of a super-Hamiltonian ${\cal H}$ are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Miloslav Znojil , Vit Jakubsky

Topological protection offers unprecedented opportunities for wave manipulation and energy transport in various fields of physics, including elasticity, acoustics, quantum mechanics and electromagnetism. Distinct classes of topological…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Marco Miniaci , Raj Kumar Pal , Raffaele Manna , Massimo Ruzzene

Topological band theory has expanded into various domains in applied physics, offering significant potential for future technologies. Recent developments indicate that unique bulk band topology perceived for electrons can be realized in a…

A two-dimensional water wave system is examined consisting of two discrete incompressible fluid domains separated by a free common interface. In a geophysical context this is a model of an internal wave, formed at a pycnocline or…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-09 Alan Compelli , Rossen Ivanov

We study optical waveguides that include layers of materials and metamaterials with hyperbolic dispersion (HMM). We consider long-range regime at the dielectric-HMM interface in different waveguide geometries (single interface or symmetric…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-04 Viktoriia E. Babicheva

Scattering media, being ubiquitous in nature and critically important for assessments (e.g., biological tissues), are often considered as nuisance in optics. Here we show that it is not always the case and scattering media could be…

In topology, one averages over local geometrical details to reveal robust global features. This approach proves crucial for understanding quantized bulk transport and exotic boundary effects of linear wave propagation in (meta-)materials.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Greta Villa , Javier del Pino , Vincent Dumont , Gianluca Rastelli , Mateusz Michałek , Alexander Eichler , Oded Zilberberg

Linearly polarized elastic waves propagating in a linear path have been extensively explored in numerous applications from biomedical imaging to structural health monitoring. However, elastic waves propagating in a circularly polarized…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Mohamed Roshdy , Osama R. Bilal

This is a study of two-dimensional steady periodic travelling waves on the surface of an infinitely deep irrotational ocean, when the top streamline is in contact with a membrane which has a nonlinear response to stretching and bending, and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-05-06 Pietro Baldi , John F. Toland

We propose a general and complete classification of all possible new and old kinds of surface plasmon waves that can propagate at boundaries of arbitrary linear, local bi-anisotropic media, including the quartic metamaterials. For arbitrary…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-05 Maxim Durach

We investigate the occurrence of topologically protected waves in classical fluids confined on curved surfaces. Using a combination of topological band theory and real space analysis, we demonstrate the existence of a system-independent…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-25 Richard Green , Jay Armas , Jan de Boer , Luca Giomi

The field equations coupling a Seiberg-Witten electromagnetic field to noncommutative gravity, as described by a formal power series in the noncommutativity parameters $\theta^{\alpha\beta}$, is investigated. A large family of solutions, up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Marculescu , F. Ruiz Ruiz

We consider the Maxwell's equations with perfect electric conductor boundary conditions in three-dimensional unbounded domains which are the union of a bounded resonator and one or several semi-infinite waveguides. We are interested in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia , Lucas Chesnel , Sonia Fliss

Topological mechanics can realize soft modes in mechanical metamaterials in which the number of degrees of freedom for particle motion is finely balanced by the constraints provided by interparticle interactions. However, solid objects are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-03 Hridesh Kedia , Anton Souslov , D. Zeb Rocklin

The aim of this work is to proceed with the development of a model of topological electromagnetism in empty space, proposed by one of us some time ago and based on the existence of a topological structure associated with the radiation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 A. F. Ranada , A. Tiemblo

In this paper we study, in the time domain, the interaction between localized surface plasmons and photons in arbitrarily shaped metal nanoparticles, by using the Hopfield approach to quantize the plasmon modes, where the electron…

Wave dynamics in topological materials has been widely studied recently. A striking feature is the existence of robust and chiral wave propagations that have potential applications in many fields. A common way to realize such wave patterns…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Pipi Hu , Liu Hong , Yi Zhu

An asymptotic theory is developed to generate equations that model the global behaviour of electromagnetic waves in periodic photonic structures when the wavelength is not necessarily long relative to the periodic cell dimensions;…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 B. J. Maling , D. J. Colquitt , R. V. Craster

This paper is concerned with the analysis of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from plasmonic inclusions in the finite frequency regime beyond the quasi-static approximation. The electric permittivity and magnetic permeability in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Hongjie Li , Shanqiang Li , Hongyu Liu , Xianchao Wang