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The study of capillary wave scattering by a circular region with different interfacial properties from the rest of an otherwise homogeneous interface is motivated by experiments on wave attenuation at a monolayer covered air-water interface…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Chou , S. K. Lucas , H. A. Stone

Surface electromagnetic waves are the main carriers of the highly localized in-plane signal in planar antennas and photonic devices. However, the polarization degree of freedom is generally absent for surface waves as far as it is still a…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-16 Sergey Polevoy , Oleh Yermakov

Excitation of spin waves is considered in a superconducting ferromagnetic slab with the equilibrium magnetization both perpendicular and parallel to the surface. The surface impedance is calculated and its behavior near propagation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Braude

We experimentally implement a virtual geometric periodicity in an elastic metamaterial. First, unwanted boundary reflections at the domain ends are cancelled through the iterative injection of the polarity reversed, reflected wavefield. The…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Henrik R. Thomsen , Bao Zhao , Andrea Colombi

This Letter presents a theoretical analysis of propagation of spin waves in a superconducting ferromagnet. The surface impedance was calculated for the case when the magnetization is normal to the sample surface. We found the frequencies at…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Braude , E. B. Sonin

Huygens' metasurfaces have demonstrated the ability to tailor electromagnetic wavefronts with passive low-profile structures. The fundamental constraint enabling passive and ideally lossless solutions is the conservation of the normal real…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Vasileios G. Ataloglou , George V. Eleftheriades

We study parametric amplification of electromagnetic waves using metasurfaces. We design a variable capacitor-loaded metasurface that can amplify incident electromagnetic waves. We analyze various regimes of operation of the system and find…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Fedor V. Kovalev , Ilya V. Shadrivov

Time reflection and refraction are temporal analogies of the spatial boundary effects derived from Fermat's principle. They occur when classical waves strike a time boundary where an abrupt change in the properties of the medium is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-20 Zhaoli Dong , Hang Li , Tuo Wan , Qian Liang , Zhaoju Yang , Bo Yan

Transverse spin angular momentum is an inherent feature of evanescent waves which may have applications in nanoscale optomechanics, spintronics, and quantum information technology due to the robust spin-directional coupling. Here we analyze…

Recently, the complexity behind manipulations of reflected fields by metasurfaces has been addressed showing that, even in the simplest scenarios, non-local response and excitation of auxiliary evanescent fields are required for perfect…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-04 Ana Diaz-Rubio , Junfei Li , Chen Shen , Steven Cummer , Sergei Tretyakov

We have theoretically studied oblique surface waves (OSWs) which propagate along the interface between a dielectric and a layered superconductor. We assume that this interface is perpendicular to the superconducting layers, and OSWs at the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-19 Yu. O. Averkov , V. M. Yakovenko , V. A. Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

In analogy with electromagnetic networks which connect multiple input-output ports, metasurfaces can be considered as multi-port devices capable of providing different functionalities for waves of different polarizations illuminating the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Xuchen Wang , Ana Díaz-Rubio , Sergei A. Tretyakov

In this paper, we present a general theory of aperiodic subwavelength arrays for controlling electromagnetic waves. The considered platform is formed by an array of electrically small loaded scatterers above a ground plane. While the array…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Yongming Li , Xikui Ma , Xuchen Wang , Sergei A. Tretyakov

We show that coupling among multiple resonances can be conveniently introduced and controlled by boundary wave scattering. We demonstrate this principle in optical microcavities of quasi-circular shape, where the couplings of multiple modes…

This paper is devoted to the stabilization of the water-wave equations with surface tension through of an external pressure acting on a small part of the free surface. It is proved that the energy decays to zero exponentially in time,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-10-26 Thomas Alazard

Material surface may have a remarkable effect on the mechanical behavior of magneto-electro-elastic (or multiferroic) structures at nano-scale. In this paper, a surface magneto-electro-elasticity theory (or effective boundary condition…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-07-29 Bin Wu , Chunli Zhang , Weiqiu Chen , Chuanzeng Zhang

We predict and study theoretically a new nonlinear electromagnetic phenomenon in a sample of layered superconductor of finite length placed in a waveguide with ideal walls. Two geometries are considered here: when the superconducting layers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-15 T. N. Rokhmanova , S. S. Apostolov , Z. A. Maizelis , V. A. Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

Transition waves in mechanical metamaterials manifest themselves as propagating interfaces between different stable states in lattices composed of arrays of coupled, intrinsically bistable elements. Here, we show experimentally and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Eleonore Duval , Giada Risso , Alex Zhang , Vincent Tournat , Katia Bertoldi

We give a general design method for finding the passive, reciprocal surface impedance tensor required to enact any wave transformation. We do this through characterising the surface in terms of a tensorial surface impedance, showing that a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 K. O. Arnold , C. Hooper , J. Smith , N. Clow , A. P. Hibbins , J. R. Sambles , S. A. R. Horsley

In this paper propagation properties of a parallel-plate waveguide with tunable artificial impedance surfaces as sidewalls are studied both analytically and numerically. The impedance surfaces comprise an array of patches over a dielectric…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Olli Luukkonen , Constantin R. Simovski , Antti V. Räisänen , Sergei A. Tretyakov