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Asymmetric transmission of circularly polarized waves is a well-established property of lossy, anisotropic, two-dimensionally chiral patterns. Here we show that asymmetric transmission can be observed for oblique incidence onto any lossy…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-18 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

From the spread of pollutants in the atmosphere to the transmission of nutrients across cell membranes, anomalous diffusion processes are ubiquitous in natural systems. The ability to understand and control the mechanisms guiding such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-04 E G Kostadinova , J L Padgett , C D Liaw , L S Matthews , T W Hyde

We develop a model for the reflection and transmission of plane waves by an isotropic layer sandwiched between two uniaxial crystals of arbitrary orientation. In the laboratory frame, reflection and transmission coefficients corresponding…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-29 Erik S. Thomson , Larry A. Wilen , John S. Wettlaufer

We show that electronic materials with disallowed rotational symmetries that enforce quasiperiodic order can exhibit quantum oscillations and that these are generically associated with exotic "spiral Fermi surfaces." These Fermi surfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Stephen Spurrier , Nigel R. Cooper

The paper presents new results on localisation and transmission of flexural waves in a structured plate containing a semi-infinite two-dimensional array of rigid pins. In particular, surface waves are identified and studied at the interface…

Following the discovery of moir\'e-driven superconductivity in twisted graphene multilayers, twistronics has spurred a surge of interest in tailored broken symmetries through angular rotations, enabling new properties from electronics to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Simon Yves , Emanuele Galiffi , Xiang Ni , Enrico Maria Renzi , Andrea Alù

We consider wave propagation inside an anisotropic superconducting film sandwiched between two semi-infinite non-conducting bounding dieletric media such that along the c-axis, perpendicular to the surfaces, there is a plasma frequency…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Mauro M. Doria , Gilberto Hollauer , F. Parage , O. Buisson

This paper considers the problem of water wave scattering by a rectangular anisotropic elastic plate mounted on the ocean surface, with either free, clamped or simply-supported edges. The problem is obtained as an expansion over the dry…

We study wave propagation in strongly nonlinear 1D diatomic granular crystals under an impact load. Depending on the mass ratio of the `light' to `heavy' beads, this system exhibits rich wave dynamics from highly localized traveling waves…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-09 E. Kim , R. Chaunsali , H. Xu , J. Jaworski , J. Yang , P. Kevrekidis , A. F. Vakakis

We study the behavior of wave propagation in materials for which not all of the principle elements of the permeability and permittivity tensors have the same sign. We find that a wide variety of effects can be realized in such media,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 D. R. Smith , D. Schurig

Quasicrystals (QCs) are a class of aperiodic ordered structures that emerge in various systems, from metallic alloys to soft matter and driven non-equilibrium systems. Within a mesoscale theory based on slowly-varying complex amplitudes for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-12 Marcello De Donno , Luiza Angheluta , Marco Salvalaglio

We introduce a formalism that describes the interaction of light with bifacial optical nanomaterials. They are artificial noncentrosymmetric materials in which counter-propagating waves behave differently. We derive electromagnetic material…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-25 P. Grahn , A. Shevchenko , M. Kaivola

Composites are ideally suited to achieve desirable multifunctional effective properties since the best properties of different materials can be judiciously combined with designed microstructures. Here we establish cross-property relations…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-13 Jaeuk Kim , Salvatore Torquato

Refraction of wave propagation in a corotating pulsar magnetospheric plasma is considered as a possible interpretation for observed asymmetric pulse profiles with multiple components. The pulsar radio emission produced inside the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Fussell , Q. Luo

In the last two decades, Fresnel diffraction (FD) of a plane wave from phase steps has been systematically studied and applied for precise measurements of light wavelength, and height and refractive index of the step. In this study we…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-13 Masoud Ghoorchi-Beygi , Masoomeh Dashtdar

In this work we present an alternative way to look at electron diffraction in a transmission electron microscope. In stead of writing the scattering amplitude in Fourier space as a set of plane waves, we use the cylindrical Fourier…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-13 Roeland Juchtmans , Jo Verbeeck

We study the electronic structure of quasicrystals composed of incommensurate stacks of atomic layers. We consider two systems: a pair of square lattices with a relative twist angle of $\theta=45^\circ$ and a pair of hexagonal lattices with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 J. A. Crosse , Pilkyung Moon

The concept of metasurface has recently opened new exciting directions to engineer the refraction properties in both optical and acoustic media. Metasurfaces are typically designed by assembling arrays of sub-wavelength anisotropic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-20 Hongfei Zhu , Fabio Semperlotti

This work is concerned with the propagation of electromagnetic waves in isotropic chiral media and with the effects produced by a plane boundary between two such media. In analogy with the phenomena of reflection and refraction of plane…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose F. Nieves , Palash B. Pal

The localization of waves in two-dimensional clusters of scatterers arranged in relatively twisted lattices is studied by multiple scattering theory. It is found that, for a given frequency, it is always possible to find localized modes for…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-20 Dani Torrent , Marc Martí-Sabaté