English
Related papers

Related papers: Refraction of space-time wave packets: I. Theoreti…

200 papers

Paraxial wave packets with discrete spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal spectra are known to undergo periodic axial revivals on propagation in either free space or linear transparent, weakly dispersive media. Such spectacular revivals,…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-18 Yanlin Bai , Yangjian Cai , Chunhao Liang , Sergey A. Ponomarenko

We introduce a dynamic light scattering technique capable of resolving motion that changes systematically, and rapidly, with time. It is based on the visibility of a speckle pattern for a given exposure duration. Applying this to a vibrated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. K. Dixon , D. J. Durian

Using a quantum electrodynamic framework, we calculate the off-resonant scattering of a broad-band X-ray pulse from a sample initially prepared in an arbitrary superposition of electronic states. The signal consists of single-particle…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Kochise Bennett , Jason D. Biggs , Yu Zhang , Konstantin E. Dorfman , Shaul Mukamel

Snell law is traditionally regarded as a hallmark of phase-propagating phenomena such as optical, acoustic, elastic, electromagnetic, and quantum waves. In contrast, purely diffusive processes, such as Fourier heat conduction and chemical…

Quantum fluctuations of electromagnetic vacuum are investigated in a half-space bounded by a perfectly reflecting plate by introducing a probe described by a charged wave-packet distribution in time-direction. The wave-packet distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Masafumi Seriu , Chun-Hsien Wu

In this study, potential scatterings are formulated in experimental setups with Gaussian wave packets in accordance with a probability principle and associativity of products. A breaking of an associativity is observed in scalar products…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Kenzo Ishikawa

A modulation of refractive index can move at the speed of light. How it interacts with an electromagnetic wave? Does it reflect? We show that an incident electromagnetic wave, depending on its frequency either is totally transmitted with a…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-19 T. Z. Esirkepov , S. V. Bulanov

Time-dependent properties of the speckled intensity patterns created by scattering coherent radiation from materials undergoing spinodal decomposition are investigated by numerical integration of the Cahn-Hilliard-Cook equation. For binary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gregory Brown , Per Arne Rikvold , Mark Sutton , Martin Grant

Space-time structuring of light - where spatial and temporal degrees of freedom are deliberately coupled and controlled - is an emerging area of optics that enables novel configurations of electromagnetic fields. Of particular importance…

We consider the propagation of several entangled photons through an elastically scattering medium and study statistical properties of their speckle patterns. We find the spatial correlations of multiphoton speckles and their sensitivity to…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-20 Avraham Klein , Oded Agam , Boris Spivak

We present an experimental investigation of the statistical properties of spherical granular particles on an inclined plane that are excited by an oscillating side-wall. The data is obtained by high-speed imaging and particle tracking…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel L. Blair , A. Kudrolli

Electromagnetic waves follow linear paths in homogenous index media, with the exception of band edges. In this study, we introduced spatially distorted photonic crystals (D-PCs) that are capable of beam-steering light waves, even when a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Kanji Nanjyo , Hitoshi Kitagawa , Daniel Headland , Masayuki Fujita , Kyoko Kitamura

The recent investigation into the phenomena of refraction and reflection at temporal boundaries, conducted through the lens of spacetime duality, has attracted considerable scholarly interest. This duality unveils insights into the…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-21 Jing Wang , Yuetao Chen , Shaoyan Gao

The control of reflection and refraction at interfaces using engineered media is central to numerous optical technologies, with negative refraction and the suppression of backscattering representing two prominent research frontiers. In this…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yongge Wang , Jingfeng Yao , Chengxun Yuan , Zhongxiang Zhou

We study the time evolution of wave packets at the mobility edge of disordered non-interacting electrons in two and three spatial dimensions. The results of numerical calculations are found to agree with the predictions of scaling theory.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bodo Huckestein , Rochus Klesse

The propagation of incoherent elastic energy in a three-dimensional solid due to the scattering by many, randomly placed and oriented, pinned dislocation segments, is considered in a continuum mechanics framework. The scattering mechanism…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-20 Dmitry Churochkin , Fernando Lund

Unstable systems such as media with inverted atomic population have been shown to allow the propagation of analytic wavepackets with group velocity faster than that of light, without violating causality. We illuminate the important role…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yakir Aharonov , Benni Reznik , Ady Stern

The temporal characterization of ultrafast laser pulses has become a cornerstone capability of ultrafast optics laboratories and is routine both for optimizing laser pulse duration and designing custom fields. Beyond pure temporal…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Spencer W. Jolly , Olivier Gobert , Fabien Quéré

Time-reflection is a uniform inversion of the temporal evolution of a signal, which arises when an abrupt change in the properties of the host material occurs uniformly in space. At such a time-interface, a portion of the input signal is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Hady Moussa , Gengyu Xu , Shixiong Yin , Emanuele Galiffi , Younes Radi , Andrea Alù

Identification and extraction of vortical structures and of waves in a disorganised flow is a mayor challenge in the study of turbulence. We present a study of the spatio-temporal behavior of turbulent flows in the presence of different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-09 P. Clark di Leoni , P. J. Cobelli , P. D. Mininni