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We consider the electrodynamics of electric charges and currents in vacuum and then generalise our results to the description of a dielectric and magnetic material medium : first in spatial algebra (SA) and then in space-time algebra (STA).…

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A general scattering problem of a plane electromagnetic wave on an infinite cylindrical rod is formulated and solved in a form of Bessel functions series expansion. The conductivity account via Ohm law directly in Maxwell equation leads to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 Katarzyna Krzyżanowska , Sergey Leble

A new method to find the propagation equation system governing the scattering of an electromagnetic wave by a nonlinear medium is proposed. The aim is to let the effects appear spontaneously, deleting as far as possible the phenomenological…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-08 Pierre Godard , Frederic Zolla , Andre Nicolet

The wave propagation of edge modes in a superlattice of 2D electron Gases in quantum Hall regime is investigated. After introducing surfaces charge and current densities at the edge, the Maxwell equations are solved for waves running along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pavel Fileviez Perez , Alejandro Cabo Montes de Oca , Carlos Rodriguez Castellanos

We consider fundamental issues of the mathematical theory of the wave propagation in waveguides with inclusions. Analysis is performed in terms of a boundary eigenvalue problem for the Maxwell equations which is reduced to an eigenvalue…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Yury Smirnov , Yury Shestopalov

Generalized hydrodynamic theory, which does not rest on the requirement of a local equilibrium, is derived in the long-wave limit of a kinetic equation. The theory bridges the whole frequency range between the quasistatic (Navier-Stokes)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Tokatly , O. Pankratov

We provide a systematic theoretical, experimental, and historical critique of the standard derivation of Fresnel's equations, which shows in particular that these well-established equations actually contradict the traditional, macroscopic…

Optics · Physics 2017-12-19 R. Starke , G. A. H. Schober

We discuss the theory of electromagnetic fields, with an emphasis on aspects relevant to radiofrequency systems in particle accelerators. We begin by reviewing Maxwell's equations and their physical significance. We show that in free space,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Andrzej Wolski

The present study deals with total internal reflection of a plane electromagnetic wave at an infinite plane boundary between a transparent medium and an amplifying or attenuating lower-index medium. Solutions of Maxwell's equations are…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-13 Takeyuki Kobayashi

The generalized gravitational entropy proposed by Lewkowycz and Maldacena in recent is extended to the interacting real scalar field and Maxwell field system. Using the BTZ geometry we first investigate the case of free real scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Wung-Hong Huang

The article deals with electrodynamics in the presence of anisotropic materials having scalar wave impedance. Maxwell's equations written for differential forms over a 3-manifold are analysed. The system is extended to a Dirac type first…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Erkki Somersalo

The goal of this work is to study the electromagnetic scattering problem of time-domain Maxwell's equations in an unbounded structure. An exact transparent boundary condition is developed to reformulate the scattering problem into an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Yixian Gao , Peijun Li

The differential form of the Maxwell's equations was first derived based on an assumption that the media are stationary, which is the foundation for describing the electro-magnetic coupling behavior of a system. For a general case in which…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 Zhong Lin Wang

This paper offers an informal instructive introduction to some of the main notions of geometric continuum mechanics for the case of smooth fields. We use a metric invariant stress theory of continuum mechanics to formulate a simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Reuven Segev

A basic model for describing plasma dynamics is given by the Euler-Maxwell system, in which compressible ion and electron fluids interact with their own self-consistent electromagnetic field. In this paper we consider the "one-fluid"…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Yu Deng , Alexandru D. Ionescu , Benoit Pausader

We consider a general compressible MHD system, where the magnetic field propagates in a heterogeneous medium. Using suitable penalization in terms of the transport coefficients we perform several singular limits. As a result we obtain: 1. A…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Jan Brezina , Eduard Feireisl

We consider the Maxwell-Schr\"odinger equations in the Coulomb gauge describing the interaction of extended fermions with their self-generated electromagnetic field. They heuristically emerge as mean-field equations from non-relativistic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Nikolai Leopold , Chiara Saffirio

We give a detailed description of electrodynamics as an emergent theory from condensed-matter-like structures, not only {\it per se} but also as a warm-up for the study of the much more complex case of gravity. We will concentrate on two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-12 Carlos Barceló , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay , Gil Jannes

A general approach is presented to describing nonlinear classical Maxwell electrodynamics with conformal symmetry. We introduce generalized nonlinear constitutive equations, expressed in terms of constitutive tensors dependent on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Steven Duplij , Gerald A. Goldin , Vladimir M. Shtelen

A process-theoretic approach to electrodynamics based on persistent Kac-type stochastic processes is developed. Finite-velocity stochastic propagation is taken as primary, while relativistic wave equations arise as emergent descriptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Partha Ghose