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This paper describes recent progress in the analysis of relativistic gauge conditions for Euclidean Maxwell theory in the presence of boundaries. The corresponding quantum amplitudes are studied by using Faddeev-Popov formalism and…

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We present and analyze a new hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the steady state Maxwell equations. In order to make the problem well-posed, a condition of divergence is imposed on the electric field. Then a Lagrange…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Huangxin Chen , Weifeng Qiu , Ke Shi

Development of particle in cell methods using finite element based methods (FEMs) have been a topic of renewed interest; this has largely been driven by (a) the ability of finite element methods to better model geometry, (b) better…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Scott O'Connor , Zane D. Crawford , O. H. Ramachandran , John Luginsland , B. Shanker

The time-harmonic Maxwell equations at high wavenumber $k$ are discretized by edge elements of degree $p$ on a mesh of width $h$. For the case of a ball and exact, transparent boundary conditions, we show quasi-optimality of the Galerkin…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Jens Markus Melenk , Stefan Sauter

Temporal metamaterials are artificially manufactured materials with time-dependent material properties that exhibit interesting phenomena when waves propagate through them. The propagation of electromagnetic waves in such time-varying…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Christian Döding , Barbara Verfürth

We consider the Maxwell's equations with perfect electric conductor boundary conditions in three-dimensional unbounded domains which are the union of a bounded resonator and one or several semi-infinite waveguides. We are interested in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia , Lucas Chesnel , Sonia Fliss

Volume or statistical averaging of the microscopic Maxwell equations (MEs), i.e. transition from microscopic MEs to their macroscopic counterparts, is one of the main steps in electrodynamics of materials. In spite of the fundamental…

Optics · Physics 2011-06-21 A. Chipouline , C. Simovski , S. Tretyakov

The approximate cloaking is investigated for time-harmonic Maxwell's equations via the approach of transformation optics. The problem is reduced to certain boundary effect estimates due to an inhomogeneous electromagnetic inclusion with an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-10 Gang Bao , Hongyu Liu

We begin by addressing the time-domain full-waveform inversion using the adjoint method. Next, we derive the scaled boundary semi-weak form of the scalar wave equation in heterogeneous media through the Galerkin method. Unlike conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Alireza Daneshyar , Stefan Kollmannsberger

Volume or statistical averaging of the microscopic Maxwell equations (MEs), i.e. transition from microscopic MEs to their macroscopic counterparts, is one of the main steps in electrodynamics of materials. In spite of the fundamental…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Chipouline , C. Simovski , S. Tretyakov

In this paper, we study a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the Maxwell operator. The only global unknowns are defined on the inter-element boundaries, and the numerical solutions are obtained by using discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Gang Chen , Jintao Cui , Liwei Xu

Surface-bound modes in metamaterials forged by drilling periodic hole arrays in perfect-conductor surfaces are investigated by means of both analytical techniques and rigorous numerical solution of Maxwell's equations. It is shown that…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 F. J. Garcia de Abajo , J. J. Saenz

A convergence result for a discontinuous Galerkin multiscale method for a second order elliptic problem is presented. We consider a heterogeneous and highly varying diffusion coefficient in $L^\infty(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{d\times d}_{sym})$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-11-26 Daniel Elfverson , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Axel Målqvist , Daniel Peterseim

Maxwell-Stefan systems describing the dynamics of the molar concentrations of a gas mixture with an arbitrary number of components are analyzed in a bounded domain under isobaric, isothermal conditions. The systems consist of mass balance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Ansgar Jüngel , Ines Viktoria Stelzer

A unified homogenization procedure for split ring metamaterials taking into account time and spatial dispersion is introduced. The procedure is based on two coupled systems of equations. The first one comes from an approximation of the…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-10 J. D. Baena , L. Jelinek , R. Marques , M. Silveirinha

We prove sharp wavenumber-explicit error bounds for first- or second-family-N\'ed\'elec-element (a.k.a. edge-element) conforming discretisations, of arbitrary (fixed) order, of the variable-coefficient time-harmonic Maxwell equations posed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Jeffrey Galkowski , Euan A. Spence

Equilateral triangular waveguides are one of the very few special kind of waveguides, whose field solutions can be constructed without necessarily solving the Maxwell's equations. Solutions can be obtained simply by superposing some plane…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Francis Emenike Onah , Julio C. Gutiérrez-Vega

We demonstrate how self-sourced collective modes - of which the plasmon is a prominent example due to its relevance in modern technological applications - are identified in strongly correlated systems described by holographic Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Ulf Gran , Marcus Tornsö , Tobias Zingg

This article is concerned with the time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a generic inhomogeneous medium. It is shown that if there is a right corner on the support of the medium, then it scatters every pair of incident EM…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Hongyu Liu , Jingni Xiao

We consider the Einstein-Maxwell system as a Cauchy initial value problem taking the electric and magnetic fields as independent variables. Maxwell's equations in curved spacetimes are derived in detail using a 3+1 formalism and their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-29 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Carlos Degollado , Marcelo Salgado