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Wave propagation in time-varying media enables unique control of energy transport by breaking energy conservation through temporal modulation. Among the resulting phenomena, temporal disorder-random fluctuations in material parameters-can…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-17 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

This work investigates the effects of time-varying media, where optical properties change over time, on electromagnetic wave propagation, focusing on plane waves and free-electron evanescent waves. We introduce a switching parameter,…

Two methods are explained to exactly solve Maxwell's equations where permittivity, permeability and conductivity may vary in space. In the constitutive relations, retardation is regarded. If the material properties depend but on one…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-20 Ulrich Brosa

The article describes a new approach to obtaining the energy-momentum tensor of electromagnetic field in medium without the use of Maxwell's equations and Poynting theorem. The energy-momentum tensor has new qualities and consequences. Its…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Yurii A. Spirichev

Regarded as a promising alternative to spatially shaping matter, time-varying media can be seized to control and manipulate wave phenomena, including thermal radiation. Here, based upon the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics,…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-16 J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano , Iñigo Liberal

In this paper, we study the dynamic formation of transients when plane waves impinge on a dispersive slab that abruptly changes its electrical properties in time. The time-varying slab alternates between air and metal-like states, whose…

Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, thanks to thesynergy between the discovery of novel, highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near-zero materials, and the questfor novel wave…

Control over the interaction of waves with ultrafast time-varying materials - those that change on a time-scale commensurate with the wave period - holds much promise for developing a raft of new technologies. Time-varying materials…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 I. R. Hooper , D. B. Phillips , S. A. R. Horsley

Recent interest in metamaterials has led to a renewed study of wave mechanics in different branches of physics. Elastodynamics involves a special intricacy, owing to a coupling between the volumetric and shear parts of the elastic waves.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Ben Lustig , Guy Elbaz , Alan Muhafra , Gal Shmuel

Invariance under time translation (or stationarity) is probably one of the most important assumptions made when investigating electromagnetic phenomena. Breaking this assumption is expected to open up novel possibilities and result in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 M. S. Mirmoosa , T. T. Koutserimpas , G. A. Ptitcyn , S. A. Tretyakov , R. Fleury

We study the implications of time-varying wave mechanics, and show how the standard wave equation is modified if the speed of a wave is not constant in time. In particular, waves which experience longitudinal acceleration are shown to have…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-18 Matias Koivurova , Charles W. Robson , Marco Ornigotti

A method is proposed for the analysis of the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a homogeneous slab of a medium with Drude-Lorentz dispersion behavior, and excited by a causal sinusoidal source. An expression of the time dependent…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-13 Mohamed Ismail , Boris Gralak

We study the properties of an electromagnetically interacting medium in the presence of high concentration of electrons at extremely high temperatures and chemical potentials. We show that the electromagnetic properties of a medium such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-14 Samina Masood

Phenomena of wave propagation in dynamically varying structures have reemerged as the temporal variations of the medium's properties can extend the possibilities for electromagnetic wave manipulation. While the dynamical change of the…

We extend the usual derivation of the wave equation from Maxwell's equations in vacuum to the case of electromagnetic fields in dispersive homogeneous isotropic linear media. Usually, dispersive properties of materials are studied in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 V. A. Coelho , F. S. S. Rosa , Reinaldo de Melo e Souza , C. Farina , M. V. Cougo-Pinto

The ability to control electromagnetic fields on the subwavelength scale could open exciting new venues in many fields of science. Transformation optics provides one way to attain such control through the local variation of the permittivity…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-13 Bo Liu , Eric J. Heller

Wave localization induced by spatial disorder is ubiquitous in physics. Here, we study the temporal analog of such phenomenon on water waves. Our time disordered media consists in a collection of temporal interfaces achieved through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-02-16 Benjamin Apffel , Sander Wildeman , Antonin Eddi , Emmanuel Fort

Using time as an additional design parameter in electromagnetism, photonics, and wave physics is attracting considerable research interest, motivated by the possibility to explore physical phenomena and engineering opportunities beyond the…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-12 Matteo Ciabattoni , Zeki Hayran , Francesco Monticone

In this letter, we investigate the statistical properties of electromagnetic signals after different times of duration within one-dimensional local-disordered time-varying cavities, where both spatial and temporal disorders are added. Our…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-01 Bo Zhou , Xingsong Feng , Xianmin Guo , Fei Gao , Hongsheng Chen , Zuojia Wang