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Magnetization dynamics and spin waves in ferromagnets are investigated using the inertial Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation. Taking inertial magnetization dynamics into account, dispersion relations describing the propagation of nutation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Sergei V. Titov , William J. Dowling , Yuri P. Kalmykov , Mikhail Cherkasskii

We consider the space of all smooth knots in the 3-sphere isotopic to a given knot, with the aim of finding a small subspace onto which this large space deformation retracts. For torus knots and many hyperbolic knots we show the subspace…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Allen Hatcher

Spatial field correlation functions represent a key quantity for the description of mesoscopic phenomena in disordered media and the optical characterization of complex materials. Yet many aspects related to the vector nature of light waves…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-03 Kevin Vynck , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

Gravitational waves (GWs) distort galaxy shapes through the tidal effect, offering a novel avenue to probe the nature of gravity. In this paper, we investigate how extra GW polarizations beyond those predicted by general relativity imprint…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yusuke Mikura , Teppei Okumura , Misao Sasaki

Convection in rotating spherical geometries is an important physical process in planetary and stellar systems. Using continuation methods at low Prandtl number, we find both strong equatorially asymmetric and symmetric polar nonlinear…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-17 F. Garcia , F. R. N. Chambers , A. L. Watts

Knots are familiar entities that appear at a captivating nexus of art, technology, mathematics, and science. As topologically stable objects within field theories, they have been speculatively proposed as explanations for diverse persistent…

We study experimentally the propagation of internal waves in two different three-dimensional (3D) geometries, with a special emphasis on the refractive focusing due to the 3D reflection of obliquely incident internal waves on a slope. Both…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-10 G. Pillet , E. V. Ermanyuk , L. R. M. Maas , I. N. Sibgatullin , T. Dauxois

We use spatial spin separation by a magnetic focusing technique to probe the polarization of quantum point contacts. The point contacts are fabricated from p-type GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. A finite polarization is measured in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. P. Rokhinson , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

In this paper, we study the properties of gravitational waves in the scalar-tensor-vector gravity theory. The polarizations of the gravitational waves are investigated by analyzing the relative motion of the test particles. It is found that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-19 Yunqi Liu , Wei-Liang Qian , Yungui Gong , Bin Wang

Stokes parameters (${\bf S}$) in Poincar\'e sphere are very useful values to describe the polarisation state of photons. However, the fundamental principle of the nature of polarisation is not completely understood, yet, because we have no…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-23 Shinichi Saito

Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum, where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane wave. Even the interference of two plane waves, or a single…

We study the strong localization of atomic matter waves in a disordered potential created by atoms pinned at the nodes of a lattice, for both three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) systems. The localization length of the matter…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Mauro Antezza , Yvan Castin , David Hutchinson

This paper focuses on how the production and polarization of gravitational waves are affected by spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking, which is driven by a self-interacting vector field. Specifically, we examine the impact of a smooth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-13 K. M. Amarilo , M. B. Ferreira Filho , A. A. Araújo Filho , J. A. A. S. Reis

In the general theory of relativity, gravitational waves have two possible polarizations, which are transverse and traceless with helicity $\pm 2$. Some alternatives theories contain additional helicity $0$ and helicity $\pm 1$ polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-25 Bruce Allen

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of two-dimensional water waves characterized by a significant adverse constant vorticity over flows without stagnation points. Surprisingly, we discover qualitative distinctions between this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Evgeniy Lokharu

Following a recent demonstration of stable trapping of floating particles by stationary (monochromatic) structured water waves [Nature 638, 394 (2025)], we report dynamic water-wave tweezers that enable controllable transport of trapped…

We show that the torus knot topology is inherent in electromagnetic and gravitational radiation by constructing spin-$N$ fields based on this topology from the elementary states of twistor theory. The twistor functions corresponding to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-21 Amy Thompson , Joe Swearngin , Dirk Bouwmeester

Recoil nucleon transferred polarization observables in coincidence quasielastic electron scattering are studied within the relativistic distorted wave impulse approximation. Results for response functions and polarization asymmetries are…

The short- and long-scale behaviour of tangled wave vortices (nodal lines) in random three-dimensional wave fields is studied via computer experiment. The zero lines are tracked in numerical simulations of periodic superpositions of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-29 Alexander J. Taylor , Mark R. Dennis

The measurement of radio polarization may be regarded as a three-dimensional statistical problem because the large photon densities at radio wavelengths allow the simultaneous detection of the three Stokes parameters which completely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mark M. McKinnon
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