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The Maxwell vector potential and the Dirac spinor used to describe the classical theory of electrodynamics both have components which are considered to be ordinary smooth functions on space-time. We reformulate electrodynamics by adding an…

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The spatial version of the fourth-order Dysthe equations describe the evolution of weakly nonlinear narrowband wave trains in deep waters. For unidirectional waves, the hidden Hamiltonian structure and new invariants are unveiled by means…

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Quantum dynamical maps provide suitable mathematical representation of quantum evolutions. It is the very notion of complete positivity which provides a proper mathematical representation of quantum evolution and gives rise to the powerful…

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We consider the one-dimensional dynamics of nonlinear non-dispersive waves. The problem can be mapped onto a linear one by means of the hodograph transform. We propose an approximate scheme for solving the corresponding Euler-Poisson…

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We analyse the properties of a (4+1)-dimensional Ricci-flat spacetime which may be viewed as an evolving Taub-NUT geometry, and give exact solutions of the Maxwell and gauged Dirac equation on this background. We interpret these solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael Atiyah , Guido Franchetti , Bernd Schroers

A theory where the gravitational, Maxwell and Dirac fields (mathematically represented as particular sections of a convenient Clifford bundle) are supposed fields in Faraday's sense living in Minkowski spacetime is presented. In our theory…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 Waldyr A. Rodrigues , Samuel Augusto Wainer

Maxwell equations provide a complete description of the electromagnetic (EM) phenomena, which have been one of the key fundamental-theories of modern physics, such as electromagnetism, optics, quantum theories, etc. The vacuum permittivity…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-12-25 Zhiwei Sun

In classical electrodynamics, by motion for either the observer or the media, it always naturally assumed that the relative moving velocity is a constant along a straight line (e.g., in inertia reference frame), so that the electromagnetic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Zhong Lin Wang

A simple Hamiltonian modeling framework for general models in nonlinear optics is given. This framework is specialized to describe the Hamiltonian structure of electromagnetic phenomena in cubicly nonlinear optical media. The model has a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 William Barham , Yaman Güçlü , Philip J. Morrison , Eric Sonnendrücker

The Cosmological Problem is considered in a five-dimensional (bulk) manifold with two time coordinates, obeying vacuum Einstein field equations. The evolution formalism is used there, in order to get a simple form of the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Carles Bona , Miguel Bezares , Bartolomé Pons-Rullan , Daniele Viganò

The aim of this article is to investigate the well-posedness, stability and convergence of solutions to the time-dependent Maxwell's equations for electric field in conductive media in continuous and discrete settings. The situation we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Eric Lindström , Larisa Beilina

Maxwell's equations resemble Schr\"odinger's equation in that an exact solution for a well-defined model delivers all physically relevant details. Solvable microscopic electrodynamic models, however, are rare. An exception is the discrete…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Richard Dengler

We study the systematic numerical approximation of Maxwell's equations in dispersive media. Two discretization strategies are considered, one based on a traditional leapfrog time integration method and the other based on convolution…

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We study the evolution of cosmological perturbations, using a hybrid approximation scheme which upgrades the weak-field limit of Einstein's field equations to account for post-Newtonian scalar and vector metric perturbations and for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carmelita Carbone , Sabino Matarrese

We provide a new perspective on non-Hermitian evolution in quantum mechanics by emphasizing the same method as in the Hermitian quantum evolution. We first give a precise description of the non unitary evolution, and collecting the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Mustapha Maamache

We present a framework for the paraxial wave equation based on propagation-dependent unitary transformations closely related to the Lewis-Ermakov invariant. This approach establishes a formal equivalence between free-space propagation and…

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Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Francisco Ley , Aaron Tran , Ellen G. Zweibel

Diffraction is one of the universal phenomena of physics, and a way to overcome it has always represented a challenge for physicists. In order to control diffraction, the study of structured waves has become decisive. Here, we present a…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-26 Miguel A. Bandres , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

The time-evolution dynamics of two nonlinear cosmological real gas models has been reexamined in detail with methods from the theory of Hamiltonian dynamical systems. These examples are FRWL cosmologies, one based on a gas, satisfying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-09 Rossen I. Ivanov , Emil M. Prodanov