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We prove the possibility of achieving exponentially growing wave propagation in space-time modulated media and give an asymptotic analysis of the quasifrequencies in terms of the amplitude of the time modulation at the degenerate points of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Xinmeng Zeng

Bloch oscillations of spatio-temporal light wave packets in arrays of nonlinear fibers with high-order dispersion are studied. The light wave experiences discrete spatial diffraction along the waveguide array coordinate together with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-10-11 A. Yulin , R. Driben , T. Meier

Symmetric teleparallel gravity (STG) offers an interesting third geometric interpretation of gravitation besides its formulation in terms of a spacetime metric and Levi-Civita connection or its teleparallel formulation. It describes gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-08 Manuel Hohmann , Christian Pfeifer , Jackson Levi Said , Ulbossyn Ualikhanova

We discuss a simple example demonstrating that spontaneous emission from "space-time-superposed" atomic center-of-mass wave packets is nontrivially and time-dependent modified with respect to the standard dipole-pattern typical of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek Czachor , Li You

A freely propagating optical field having a periodic transverse spatial profile undergoes periodic axial revivals - a well-known phenomenon known as the Talbot effect or self-imaging. We show here that introducing tight spatio-temporal…

We consider rectilinear free-space propagation of electromagnetic wavepackets using electromagnetic field theory, scalar wavepacket propagation, and quantum-mechanical formalism. We demonstrate that spatially localized wavepackets are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

In a communication scheme, there exist points at the transmitter and at the receiver where the wave is reduced to a finite set of functions of time which describe amplitudes and phases. For instance, the information is summarized in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-11-20 Bernard Lacaze

We prove the possibility of achieving non-reciprocal wave propagation in space-time modulated media and give an asymptotic analysis of the non-reciprocity property in terms of the amplitude of the time-modulation. Such modulation causes a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen

A time-domain approach is proposed for the propagation of ultrashort electro- magnetic wave packets beyond the paraxial and the slowly-varying-envelope approximations. An analytical method based on perturbation theory is used to solve the…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles Varin , Michel Piché

1) A wave equation is derived from the kinetic equations governing media with rotational as well as translational degrees of freedom. In this wave the fluctuating quantity is a vector, the bulk spin. The transmission is similar to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Lukas Saul

We study the space-time evolution of ``flavor'' neutrino wave-packets at finite temperature and density in the early Universe prior to BBN. We implement non-equilibrium field theory methods and linear response to study the space-time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 C. M. Ho , D. Boyanovsky

Time-variant systems have recently garnered considerable attention due to their unique potentials in manipulating electromagnetic waves. Here, a novel class of topological spacetime crystals is introduced, with a traveling-wave modulation…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

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

A remarkable phenomenon of superoscillations implies that electromagnetic waves can locally oscillate in space or time faster than the fastest spatial and temporal Fourier component of the entire function. This phenomenon allows to focus…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-18 Yijie Shen , Nikitas Papasimakis , Nikolay I. Zheludev

Superfocusing confines light within subwavelength structures, breaking the diffraction limit. Structures with spatial singularities, such as metallic cones, are crucial to enable nanoscale focusing, leading to significant advancements in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-14 Qianru Yang , Haotian Wu , Hao Hu , F. J. García-Vidal , Guangwei Hu , Yu Luo

We demonstrate a standing wave light pulse sequence that places atoms into a superposition of displaced wavepackets with precisely controlled displacements that remain constant for times as long as 1 s. The separated wavepackets are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Edward J. Su , Saijun Wu , Mara Prentiss

It has long been established that turbulent jets comprise large-scale coherent structures, now more commonly referred to as "wavepackets". These structures exhibit a remarkable spatio-temporal organisation, despite turbulence. In this work…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-27 Onofrio Semeraro , Francois Lusseyran , Luc Pastur , Peter Jordan

Wave propagation in ray-chaotic scenarios, characterized by exponential sensitivity to ray-launching conditions, is a topic of significant interest, with deep phenomenological implications and important applications, ranging from optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi , Innocenzo M. Pinto

We investigate the transmission of scalar, electromagnetic, and linearized odd-parity gravitational waves in a static spacetime characterized by a spherical distribution of matter in the form of thin concentric equidistant shells of equal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-04 Rubén O. Acuña-Cárdenas , Olivier Sarbach , Luca Tessieri

Topological phase transitions, characterized by the closing and reopening of band gaps and a concomitant change in topological invariants, have played a central role in topological physics. However, such transitions have so far been…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-19 Zebin Zhu , Bolun Huang , Siqi Xu , Jingming Chen , Yan Meng , Zhenxiao Zhu , Xiang Xi , Zhen Gao