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The existence of surface electromagnetic waves in the dielectric-metal interface is due to the sign change of real parts of permittivity across the interface. In this work, we demonstrate that the interface constructed by two semi-infinite…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-16 Xiaohan Cui , Kun Ding , Jian-Wen Dong , Che Ting Chan

In order to ascertain conditions for surface-wave propagation guided by the planar interface of an isotropic dielectric material and a sculptured nematic thin film (SNTF) with periodic nonhomogeneity, we formulated a boundary-value problem,…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-08 Kartiek Agarwal , John A. Polo , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

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

General equations describing shear displacements in incompressible hyperelastic materials, holding for an arbitrary form of strain energy density function, are presented and applied to the description of nonlinear Love-type waves…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-03-20 Shawn Samuel Carl McAdam , Samuel Opoku Agyemang , Alexei Cheviakov

It is shown that new pure shear acoustic surface waves with five different velocities can be guided by stress free plane cuts with different magneto-electrical properties in magneto-electro-elastic materials. The possibility for the surface…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arman Melkumyan

Eleven pure shear surface waves are shown to exist in magneto-electro-elastic materials, which contain different plane inclusions inside them. The plane inclusions affect the electric and magnetic fields only, so that the medium remains…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arman Melkumyan

We analyze surface electromagnetic waves with hyperbolic dispersion supported at the interface between a semi-infinite isotropic medium and an effective uniaxial material. Apart from known types plasmons with hyperbolic dispersion curve,…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-04 Osamu Takayama , Andrei V. Lavrinenko

The propagation of a dissipative solitary wave across an interface is studied in a binary complex plasma. The experiments were performed under microgravity conditions in the PK-3 Plus Laboratory on board the International Space Station…

The interaction of surface waves with Couette-type current with uniform vorticity is a well suited problem for students approaching the theory of surface waves. The problem, although mathematically simple, contains rich physics, and is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-26 Simen Å Ellingsen , Iver Brevik

Laboratory experimental results are presented for nonlinear Internal Solitary Waves (ISW) propagation in deep water configuration with miscible fluids. The results are validated against direct numerical simulations and traveling wave exact…

We consider the effect of an array of plates or beams over a semi-infinite elastic ground on the propagation of elastic waves hitting the interface. The plates/beams are slender bodies with flexural resonances at low frequencies able to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jean-Jacques Marigo , Kim Pham , Agnès Maurel , Sébastien Guenneau

It is demonstrated that a new kind of low-loss surface electromagnetic wave may propagate along a planar surface inside a lossy medium if the medium permittivity changes continuously across such surface. Similar to surface plasmons, the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-25 Igor I. Smolyaninov

Capillary waves are a classical free-surface phenomenon in fluid mechanics, yet their behavior in chiral fluids remains largely unexplored. We show that odd viscosity breaks the reciprocity of capillary waves. Using linear theory together…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-17 Holly du Plessis , Pedro Cosme , Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

In shallow-water waveguides a propagating field can be decomposed over three kinds of modes: the propagating modes, the radiating modes and the evanescent modes. In this paper we consider the propagation of a wave in a randomly perturbed…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-12-01 Christophe Gomez

This paper extends current knowledge on electromagnetic wave scattering from bounded moving media in several regards. First, it complements the usual dispersion relation of moving media, $\omega(\theta_\mathbf{k})$ ($\theta_\mathbf{k}$:…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-04 Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Xuezhi Zheng , Christophe Caloz

Guided waves modes in a slab waveguide formed from the isotropic dielectric layer embedded by hyperbolic materials are investigated. Optical axis is normal to the slab plane. The dispersion relations for TE and TM waves are found. The…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-28 Ekaterina I. Lyashko , Andrey I. Maimistov

Longitudinal wave propagation is considered in a pair of waveguides connected by bilinear spring systems. The nature of the nonlinearity causes the compressive and tensile force-displacement relations of the bilinear spring to behave in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-02 Zhaocheng Lu , Andrew N. Norris

The surface plasmonic waves excited by a vertical or horizontal oriented Hertzian dipole above anisotropic and spatially dispersive two-dimensional surfaces of infinite extent embedded in planarly layered uniaxial media is investigated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Minyu Gu , Krzysztof A. Michalski

We study theoretically some unique characteristics of surface electromagnetic waves excited at the interface between two different kinds of general bi-isotropic media, which include Tellegen media and chiral media as special cases. We…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-06 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

Surface waves play important roles in many fundamental and applied areas from seismic detection to material characterizations. Supershear surface waves with propagation speeds greater than bulk shear waves have recently been reported, but…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-19 Guo-Yang Li , Xu Feng , Antoine Ramier , Seok-Hyun Yun