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We study the effects of single impurities on the transmission in microwave realizations of the photonic Kronig-Penney model, consisting of arrays of Teflon pieces alternating with air spacings in a microwave guide. As only the first…

Optics · Physics 2008-04-15 G. A. Luna-Acosta , H. Schanze , U. Kuhl , H. -J. Stoeckmann

We propose and analyse a numerical method for time-harmonic acoustic scattering in $\mathbb{R}^n$, $n=2,3$, by a class of inhomogeneities (penetrable scatterers) with fractal boundary. Our method is based on a Galerkin discretisation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Joshua Bannister , David P. Hewett , Andrew Gibbs

Non-Hermitian systems exhibit diverse graph patterns of energy spectra under open boundary conditions. Here we present an algebraic framework to comprehensively characterize the spectral geometry and graph topology of non-Bloch bands. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Yuncheng Xiong , Haiping Hu

We present a novel method for calculating interface curvature on 3D unstructured meshes from piecewise-linear interface reconstructions typically generated in the volume of fluid method. Interface curvature is a necessary quantity to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Z. Jibben , N. N. Carlson , M. M. Francois

The focus of this contribution is the numerical treatment of interface coupled problems concerning the interaction of incompressible fluid flow and permeable, elastic structures. The main emphasis is on extending the range of applicability…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Christoph Ager , Benedikt Schott , Magnus Winter , Wolfgang A. Wall

We describe a method for exactly diagonalizing clean $D$-dimensional lattice systems of independent fermions subject to arbitrary boundary conditions in one direction, as well as systems composed of two bulks meeting at a planar interface.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-02 Emilio Cobanera , Abhijeet Alase , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

This paper introduces a novel method for the efficient and accurate computation of volume fractions on unstructured polyhedral meshes, where the phase boundary is an orientable hypersurface, implicitly given as the iso-contour of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Johannes Kromer , Dieter Bothe

The band-unfolding method is widely used to calculate the effective band structures of a disordered system from its supercell model. The unfolded band structures show the crystallographic symmetry of the underlying structure, where the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-18 Yuji Ikeda , Abel Carreras , Atsuto Seko , Atsushi Togo , Isao Tanaka

The dynamic engineering of band structures for ultracold atoms in optical lattices represents an innovative approach to understand and explore the fundamental principles of topological matter. In particular, the folded Floquet spectrum…

Non-Bloch band theory serves as a cornerstone for understanding intriguing non-Hermitian phenomena, such as the skin effect and extreme spectral sensitivity to boundary conditions. Yet this theory hinges on translational symmetry and thus…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-07-15 Konghao Sun , Haiping Hu

In this work a Nitsche-based imposition of generalized Navier conditions on cut meshes for the Oseen problem is presented. Other methods from literature dealing with the generalized Navier condition impose this condition by means of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-14 M. Winter , B. Schott , A. Massing , W. A. Wall

This paper introduces a novel boundary integral approach of shape uncertainty quantification for the Helmholtz scattering problem in the framework of the so-called parametric method. The key idea is to construct an integration grid whose…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Yuval Harness

Narrow band electron systems are particularly likely to exhibit correlated many-body phases driven by interaction effects. Examples include magnetic materials, heavy fermion systems, and topological phases such as fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-19 Ching Hua Lee , Daniel P. Arovas , Ronny Thomale

One of the major issues in the computational mechanics is to take into account the geometrical complexity. To overcome this difficulty and to avoid the expensive mesh generation, geometrically unfitted methods, i.e. the numerical methods…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Stephane Cotin , Michel Duprez , Vanessa Lleras , Alexei Lozinski , Killian Vuillemot

Symmetries crucially underlie the classification of topological phases of matter. Most materials, both natural as well as architectured, possess crystalline symmetries. Recent theoretical works unveiled that these crystalline symmetries can…

This paper addresses the reconstruction of periodic structures using phase or phaseless near-field measurements. We introduce a novel illumination strategy based on the quasi-periodic condition. Employing the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Jue Wang , Yujie Wang , Lei Zhang , Enxi Zheng

A class of periodic solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with non- Hermitian potentials are considered. The system may be implemented in planar nonlinear optical waveguides carrying an appropriate distribution of local gain and…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-21 Bin Liu , Lu Li , Boris A. Malomed

We present an arbitrary order discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for solving the biharmonic interface problem on the unfitted mesh. The approximation space is constructed by a patch reconstruction process with at most one degree…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Yan Chen , Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu

We consider the calculation of the band structure of frequency dependent photonic crystals. The associated eigenvalue problem is nonlinear and it is challenging to develop effective convergent numerical methods. In this paper, the band…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Wenqiang Xiao , Bo Gong , Jiguang Sun , Zhimin Zhang

In this paper, we exploit the concept of Kolmogorov $n$-widths to establish optimality benchmarks for reduced-order methods used in phononic, acoustic, and photonic band structure calculations. The Bloch-transformed operators are entire…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Ankit Srivastava