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Miniaturized optical resonators with spatial dimensions of the order of the wavelength of the trapped light offer prospects for a variety of new applications like quantum processing or construction of meta-materials. Light propagation in…

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The interaction of electromagnetic waves with metallic nanostructures generates resonant oscillations of the conduction-band electrons at the metal surface. These resonances can lead to large enhancements of the incident field and to the…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Ferran Vidal-Codina , Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen , Jaime Peraire

We present a microscopic model for nanoparticles, of the maghemite ($\gamma $% -Fe$_{2}$O$_{3}$) type, and perform classical Monte Carlo simulations of their magnetic properties. On account of M\"{o}ssbauer spectroscopy and high-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Kachkachi , A. Ezzir , M. Nogues , E. Tronc

At a boundary between two transparent, linear, isotropic, homogeneous materials, derivations of the electromagnetic boundary conditions and the Fresnel relations typically proceed from the Minkowski {E,B,D,H} representation of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-09 Michael E. Crenshaw

The Poisson--Boltzmann equation is widely used to model electrostatics in molecular systems. Available software packages solve it using finite difference, finite element, and boundary element methods, where the latter is attractive due to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Michal Bosy , Matthew W. Scroggs , Timo Betcke , Erik Burman , Christopher D. Cooper

In this article we consider an inverse boundary value problem for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations. We show that the electromagnetic material parameters are determined by boundary measurements where part of the boundary data is measured…

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A surface integral representation of Maxwell's equations allows the efficient electromagnetic (EM) modeling of three-dimensional structures with a two-dimensional discretization, via the boundary element method (BEM). However, existing BEM…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-14 Shashwat Sharma , Piero Triverio

This paper developes a data-driven magnetostatic finite-element (FE) solver which directly exploits measured material data instead of a material curve constructed from it. The distances between the field solution and the measurement points…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Herbert De Gersem , Armin Galetzka , Ion Gabriel Ion , Dimitrios Loukrezis , Ulrich Römer

We provide a theoretical framework to describe the dynamics of a free-electron beam interacting with quantized bound systems in arbitrary electromagnetic environments. This expands the quantum optics toolbox to incorporate free-electron…

Optical tweezers and optical lattices are making it possible to control small particles by means of electromagnetic forces and torques. In this context, a method is presented in this work to calculate electromagnetic forces and torques for…

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A boundary integral equation formulation is presented for the electromagnetic transmission problem where an incident electromagnetic wave is scattered from a bounded dielectric object. The formulation provides unique solutions for all…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Johan Helsing , Anders Karlsson

This work focuses on model preparation for electrostatic simulations of CAD designs to realize a rapid virtual prototyping concept. We present a boundary element method (BEM) allowing discontinuous fields between surfaces. The corresponding…

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We consider the scattering of time periodic electro-magnetic fields by metallic obstacles, the eddy current problem. In this interface problem different sets of Maxwell equations must be solved in the obstacle and outside, while the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-26 M. Maischak , Z. Nezhi , J. E. Ospino , E. P. Stephan

A rigorous account of quantum nonlocal effects is paramount for understanding the optical response of metal nanostructures and for designing plasmonic devices at the nanoscale. Here, we present a scheme for retrieving the quantum surface…

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In this paper, we consider the frequency-domain Maxwell's equations coupled to a nonlocal Drude model which describes the nonlocal optical response in metallic nanostructures. We prove the existence and uniqueness of weak solutions to the…

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Point-form relativistic quantum mechanics is used to derive an expression for the electromagnetic form factor of a pseudoscalar meson for space-like momentum transfers. The elastic scattering of an electron by a confined quark-antiquark…

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Developing permanent magnets with fewer critical elements requires understanding hysteresis effects and coercivity through visualizing magnetization reversal. Here, we numerically investigate the effect of the geometry of nanoscale…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-27 Shouvik Sarker , Md Mahadi Rajib , Radhika Barua , Jayasimha Atulasimha

A new scheme is presented for imposing periodic boundary conditions on unit cells with arbitrary source distributions. We restrict our attention here to the Poisson, modified Helmholtz, Stokes and modified Stokes equations. The approach…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Ruqi Pei , Travis Askham , Leslie Greengard , Shidong Jiang

A novel boundary element formulation for solving problems involving eddy currents in the thin skin depth approximation is developed. It is assumed that the time-harmonic magnetic field outside the scatterers can be described using the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Nail A. Gumerov , Ross N. Adelman , Ramani Duraiswami

We present a coupling of the Finite Element and the Boundary Element Method in an isogeometric framework to approximate either two-dimensional Laplace interface problems or boundary value problems consisting in two disjoint domains. We…

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