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Core-satellite structures are known to exhibit magnetic modes at optical frequencies and their characterization is important for the development of metamaterials and metafluids. We develop a finite-difference time-domain electrodynamics…

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Electromagnetic waves in a dynamical axion background exhibit superluminal group velocities at high frequencies and instabilities at low frequencies, altering how photons propagate through space. Local disturbances propagate causally, but…

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There is an increasing interest in the study of metamaterials and periodic materials across disciplines. These are anisotropic and their properties present directionality. For example, the wave speed depends on the propagation direction.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Nicolás Guarín-Zapata , Camilo Valencia , Juan Gómez

While the postulate of covariance of Maxwell's equations for all inertial observers led Einstein to special relativity, it was the further demand of general covariance -- form invariance under general coordinate transformations, including…

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Random resonant media being one of the possible realizations of disordered metamaterials open a room of opportunities for achieving new fundamental effects and designing advanced nanophotonic devices. Strongly nonlinear optical properties…

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In this study, we utilize intense laser pulses and advanced quantum mechanical frameworks to investigate the behavior of high-velocity electrons within magnetized plasma environments. The focus of our research is placed within the context…

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The latest breakthroughs in time-varying photonics are fueling novel thermal emission phenomena, for example, showing that the dynamic amplification of quantum vacuum fluctuations, induced by the time-modulation of material properties,…

This work investigates the propagation of electromagnetic waves in waveguides within static curved spacetimes. We develop a covariant formalism using Hertzian potentials to describe guided electromagnetic modes in spacetimes with metrics…

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We present a new class of artificial materials which exhibit a tailored response to the electrical component of electromagnetic radiation. These electric metamaterials (EM-MMs) are investigated theoretically, computationally, and…

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Changing the microstructure properties of a space-time metamaterial while a wave is propagating through it, in general requires addition or removal of energy, which can be of exponential form depending on the type of modulation. This limits…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Kshiteej J. Deshmukh , Graeme W. Milton

Hyperbolic metamaterials were originally introduced to overcome the diffraction limit of optical imaging. Soon thereafter it was realized that they demonstrate a number of novel phenomena resulting from the broadband singular behavior of…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-10 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Vera N. Smolyaninova

Radiation from magnetic and electric dipole moments is a key subject in theory of electrodynamics. Although people treat the problem thoroughly in the context of frequency domain, the problem is still not well understood in the context of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 M. S. Mirmoosa , G. A. Ptitcyn , R. Fleury , S. A. Tretyakov

In this paper we theoretically study propagation of steady state ultrashort pulse in dissipative medium. We considered two cases (i) medium consists of lossy metallic nanostructures embedded into a gain material and (ii) the gain material…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-18 Ildar R. Gabitov , Bridget Kennedy , Andrei I. Maimistov

Artificial media provide unique playground to test fundamental theories allowing one to probe the laws of electromagnetism in the presence of hypothetical axions. While some materials are known to realize this physics, here we propose the…

This paper deals with the propagation of Klein-Gordon particles in flat background spacetime exhibiting discontinuous metric changes from a Lorentzian signature (-,+,+,+) to a Kleinian signature (-,+,+,-). A formal analogy with the…

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It has been recently shown that especially engineered light beams have the remarkable ability to propagate along curved trajectories in vacuum. Current methods for generating accelerating beams use phase modulators and lenses leading to…

We extend the transformation-optics paradigm to a complex spatial coordinate domain, in order to deal with electromagnetic metamaterials characterized by balanced loss and gain, giving special emphasis to parity-time (PT) symmetric…

The concept of periodic structures has driven the development of advanced materials like photonic and phononic crystals. These metamaterials typically rely on complex repeating units or meta-atoms, limiting their adaptability after…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Linlin An , Peifeng Fan

Ultrashort electron pulses with a high average current provide a powerful means of enhancing time-resolved imaging and photon generation. In this study, we report the attosecond shaping of sub-relativistic electron beams using membranes in…

Time crystals are an eagerly sought phase of matter with broken time-translation symmetry. Quantum time crystals with discretely broken time-translation symmetry have been demonstrated in trapped ions, atoms and spins while continuously…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-03 Tongjun Liu , Jun-Yu Ou , Kevin F. MacDonald , Nikolay I. Zheludev