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The Goos-H\"anchen (GH) shift describes a phenomenon in which a specularly-reflected beam is laterally translated along the reflecting surface such that the incident and reflected rays no longer intersect at the surface. Using a neutron…

We study a one-component quaternionic wave equation which is relativistically covariant. Bi-linear forms include a conserved 4-current and an antisymmetric second rank tensor. Waves propagate within the light-cone and there is a conserved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Charles Schwartz

On total reflection from a half-space filled with an isotropic, homogeneous, weakly dissipative, dielectric-magnetic medium with negative phase-velocity (NPV) characteristics, it is shown here that a linearly polarized beam can experience…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lakhtakia

The analogies between optical and electronic Goos-H\"{a}nchen effects are established based on electron wave optics in semiconductor or graphene-based nanostructures. In this paper, we give a brief overview of the progress achieved so far…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-10 Xi Chen , Xiao-Jing Lu , Yue Ban , Chun-Fang Li

We study the classical optics effects known as Goos-H\"anchen (GH) and Imbert-Fedorov (IF) shifts, occurring when reflecting a bounded light beam from a planar surface, by using a quantum-mechanical formalism. This new approach allows us to…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-16 Falk Töppel , Marco Ornigotti , Andrea Aiello

We establish propagation of singularities for the semiclassical Schr\"odinger equation, where the potential is conormal to a hypersurface. We show that semiclassical wavefront set propagates along generalized broken bicharacteristics, hence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-08 Oran Gannot , Jared Wunsch

We describe how the notion of optical beam shifts (including the spatial and angular Goos-H\"anchen shift and Imbert-Federov shift) can be understood as a classical analogue of a quantum measurement of the polarization state of a paraxial…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-15 Mark R Dennis , Jörg B Götte

Perturbative partial-wave amplitudes diverge in cases with a massless exchanged particle in the $t$-channel. We argue that the divergence is an artifact of perturbation theory and give a prescription for the all-orders correction factor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Marta Fuentes Zamoro , Benjamín Grinstein , Pablo Quílez

An experiment is described that tests theoretical predictions on how C-lines incident obliquely on a surface behave on reflection. C-lines in a polarised wave are the analogues of the optical vortices carried by a complex scalar wave, which…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 W. Löffler , J. F. Nye , J. H. Hannay

The influence of the misfit strain on the lateral shift (Goos-Hanchen effect) experienced by a near-infrared electromagnetic wave upon reflection from the surface of a bilayer consisting of a magnetic, gyrotropic (i.e., whose permittivity…

Recently, an interesting phenomenon of spatial localization of optical modes along periodic ray trajectories near avoided resonance crossings has been observed [J. Wiersig, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 253901 (2006)]. For the case of a microdisk…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julia Unterhinninghofen , Jan Wiersig , Martina Hentschel

Surface wave propagation at the interface between different types of gyrotropic materials and an isotropic negatively refracting medium, in which the relative permittivity and relative permeability are, simultaneously, negative is…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Allan D. Boardman , Neil King , Yuriy Rapoport , Larry Velasco

There is considerable interest in the application of quantum information science to advance computations in plasma physics. Many of the topics in fusion plasma physics are classical in nature. In order to implement them on quantum computers…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Abhay K. Ram , George Vahala , Linda Vahala , Min Soe

Coherent control of wave transmission and reflection is crucial for applications in communication, imaging, and sensing. However, many practical scenarios involve partially coherent waves rather than fully coherent ones. We present a…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-13 Cheng Guo , Shanhui Fan

Graphene-assisted resonant transmission and enhanced Goos-H\"{a}nchen shift are investigated in a two-prism frustrated-total-internal-reflection configuration. Due to the excitation of surface plasmons induced by graphene in low terahertz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Yi Chen , Yue Ban , Qi-Biao Zhu , Xi Chen

We theoretically investigate the control of the Goos-H\"anchen shift (GHS) of a reflected weak probe field in both parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetric and conventional optomechanical systems. The proposed scheme consists of a single…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-03 Shah Fahad , Gao Xianlong

We investigate the analytic continuation of wave equations into the complex position plane. For the particular case of electromagnetic waves we provide a physical meaning for such an analytic continuation in terms of a family of closely…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 S. A. R. Horsley , C. G. King , T. G. Philbin

In this Letter the expression for the refractive index of de Broglie wave in the presence of a potential field is obtained and based on this, the physical meanings of negative index of refraction is revealed. We demonstrate that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Qi Shen

In this study, we experimentally investigate the application of a transient signal with complex frequencies to the absorption and transmission of sound waves. Indeed, the emission of a wave with an exponentially varying amplitude in time is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Anis Maddi , Gaelle Poignand , Vassos Achilleos , Vincent Pagneux , Guillaume Penelet

We present here a compactly formulated application of the previously posted general formalism of the reflection of Gaussian beams at a dielectric interface ({arXiv:0710.1643v2 [physics.optics]}). Specifically, we calculate the…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-28 A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman