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Space-time varying media with moving interfaces unlock new ways to manipulate electromagnetic waves. Yet, analytical solutions have been mostly limited to interfaces moving at constant velocity or constant proper acceleration. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 Klaas De Kinder , Amir Bahrami , Christophe Caloz

Space-time modulation of electromagnetic parameters offers novel exciting possibilities for advanced field manipulations. In this study, we explore wave scattering from a time-varying interface characterized by a Lorentz-type dispersion…

Time modulation of the physical parameters offers interesting new possibilities for wave control. Examples include amplification of waves, harmonic generation and non-reciprocity, without resorting to non-linear mechanisms. Most of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Michaël Darche , Raphaël Assier , Sébastien Guenneau , Bruno Lombard , Marie Touboul

Space-time materials are obtained by modulating a physical medium with a traveling-wave perturbation of one or several of its constitutive parameters, such as the density or the bulk modulus in the case of acoustic materials. When this…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-10 J. Galiana , J. Redondo , R. Picó , V. J. Sánchez-Morcillo

Scattering at interluminal modulation interfaces, where a sharp space-time perturbation moves at a velocity lying between the wave velocities of the two surrounding media, has remained an open problem for decades. This regime is somewhat…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Zhiyu Li , Klaas De Kinder , Xikui Ma , Christophe Caloz

This paper presents an analytical framework for the study of scattering and diffraction phenomena in spacetime-modulated metallic gratings. Using a Lorentz transformation, it is shown that a particular class of spacetime-modulated gratings…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Antonio Alex-Amor , Carlos Molero , Mário G. Silveirinha

This paper extends current knowledge on electromagnetic wave scattering from bounded moving media in several regards. First, it complements the usual dispersion relation of moving media, $\omega(\theta_\mathbf{k})$ ($\theta_\mathbf{k}$:…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-04 Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Xuezhi Zheng , Christophe Caloz

Dynamic modulation of material properties in space and time enables powerful control over wave propagation, yet existing theories largely rely on idealized, nondispersive models. In realistic media, frequency dispersion can strongly reshape…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

We compute the spin-active scattering matrix and the local spectrum at the interface between a metal and a three-dimensional topological band insulator. We show that there exists a critical incident angle at which complete (100%) spin flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 Erhai Zhao , Chun Zhang , Mahmoud Lababidi

We analyze the propagation of waves in unbounded photonic crystals, the waves are described by a Helmholtz equation with $x$-dependent coefficients. The scattering problem must be completed with a radiation condition at infinity, which was…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-10 Agnes Lamacz , Ben Schweizer

Modulating macroscopic parameters of materials in time offers innovative avenues for manipulating electromagnetic waves. Due to such enticing prospects, the general research subject of time-varying systems is expanding today in different…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-06 M. S. Mirmoosa , T. Setälä , A. Norrman

The scattering of charged massive scalar waves by Kerr-Newman black holes, with incidence along the equatorial plane, is investigated in this work. The differential scattering cross section is computed using the partial wave method, with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Qian Li , Qianchuan Wang , Junji Jia

We consider the scattering of in-plane waves that interact with an edge of a structured {penetrable (inertial)} line defect contained in a triangular lattice, composed of periodically placed masses interconnected by massless elastic rods.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 M. J. Nieves , B. L. Sharma

The formation, deformation, and break-up of liquid interfaces are ubiquitous phenomena in nature. In the present article we discuss the deformation of a liquid interface produced by optical radiation forces. Usually, the bending of such an…

In this paper a mathematical model is given for the scattering of an incident wave from a surface covered with microscopic small Helmholtz resonators, which are cavities with small openings. More precisely, the surface is built upon a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Habib Ammari , Kthim Imeri

A new approach for analyzing waveguide junctions containing conductive cylindrical objects is proposed. The algorithm is based on mode matching technique using local projection functions, which improves the numerical conditioning of the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Malgorzata Warecka , Rafal Lech , Piotr Kowalczyk

Scattering of electronic waves in square and triangular lattice half-planes by a step on the surface is analyzed using the nearest-neighbour tight binding approximation. The changes in lattice spacing and the transfer integral between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Basant Lal Sharma

The scattering of vortices at a critical value of the coupling constant in the Lagrangian can be approximated by a geodesic motion in the moduli space of classical static configurations of vortices. In this paper we give a scheme for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 P. A. Shah

We experimentally study the scattering of guided matter waves on an amplitude-modulated optical lattice. We observe different types of frequency-dependent dips in the asymptotic output density distribution. Their positions are compared…

Critical wetting transitions under nonequilibrium conditions are studied numerically and analytically by means of an interface-displacement model defined by a Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation, plus some extra terms representing a limiting,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elvira Romera , Francisco de los Santos , Omar Al Hammal , Miguel A. Munoz
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