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We analyze the Axion Electrodynamics in a two-dimensional slab of finite width $L$ containing a homogeneous and isotropic dielectric medium with constant permittivity and permeability. We start from the known decomposition of modes in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Iver Brevik , Masud Chaichian , Amedeo M. Favitta

Helicons are transverse electromagnetic waves propagating in three-dimensional (3D) electron systems subject to a static magnetic field. We present a theory of helicons propagating through a 3D Weyl semimetal. Our approach relies on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Francesco M. D. Pellegrino , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Marco Polini

Topological elastic metamaterials provide a topologically robust way to manipulate the phononic energy and information beyond the conventional approaches. Among various topological elastic metamaterials, Weyl elastic metamaterials stand…

Motivated by recent theoretical and experimental interest in metamaterials comprising non-local coupling terms, we present an analytic framework to realise materials with arbitrary complex dispersion relations. Building on the inverse…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 R. G. Edge , S. A. R. Horsley , T. A. Starkey , G. J. Chaplain

It has been noted a long time ago that a term of the form theta (e^2/2\pi h) B dot E may be added to the standard Maxwell Lagrangian without modifying the familiar laws of electricity and magnetism. theta is known to particle physicists as…

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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

We formulate a quantitative theory of non-local electron transport in three-terminal disordered ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet structures. We demonstrate that magnetic effects have different implications: While strong exchange field…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-07-29 Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

It has been suggested that certain antiferromagnetic topological insulators contain axion quasiparticles (AQs), and that such materials could be used to detect axion dark matter (DM). The AQ is a longitudinal antiferromagnetic spin…

The possibility of the non local physics application in the theory of superconductivity is investigated. It is shown that by the superconducting conditions the relay ("estafette") motion of the soliton' system ("attice ion - electron") is…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-07 Boris V. Alexeev

Altermagnets have recently emerged as a new class of magnetic materials sharing properties of both antiferromagnets and ferromagnets. Despite very small net magnetization, they show phenomena usually associated with ferromagnetism, such as…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-06-03 Maxim Mostovoy

Condensed-matter and other engineered systems, such as cold atoms, photonic, or phononic metamaterials, have proven to be versatile platforms for the observation of low-energy counterparts of elementary particles from relativistic field…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-27 Valerio Peri , Marc Serra-Garcia , Roni Ilan , Sebastian D. Huber

Metamaterials, artificially structured electromagnetic (EM) materials, have enabled the realization of many unconventional electromagnetic properties not found in nature, such as negative refractive index, magnetic response, invisibility…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-03 Weixuan Zhang , Kaiyang Cheng , Chao Wu , Yi Wang , Hongqiang Li , Xiangdong Zhang

Metamaterials based on regular two-dimensional arrays of thin wires have attracted renewed attention in light of a recently proposed strategy to search for dark matter axions. When placed in the external magnetic field, such metamaterials…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-08-14 Nolan Kowitt , Dajie Sun , Mackenzie Wooten , Alexander Droster , Karl van Bibber , Rustam Balafendiev , Maxim A. Gorlach , Pavel A. Belov

Free-electron radiation results from the interaction between swift electrons and the local electromagnetic environment. Recent advances in material technologies provide powerful tools to control light emission from free electrons and may…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-16 Hao Hu , Xiao Lin , Yu Luo

With the explosion of wireless networks and automotive radar systems, there is an acute need for new materials and technologies that would not only minimize the size of these devices, but also enhance their performances. The technique of…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-04-14 Tichit Paul-Henri , Shah Nawaz Burokur , Dylan Germain , Andre de Lustrac

We theoretically prove that electromagnetic beams propagating through a nonlinear cubic metamaterial can exhibit a power flow whose direction reverses its sign along the transverse profile. This effect is peculiar of the hitherto unexplored…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. Ciattoni , C. Rizza , E. Palange

The nonlocal electrodynamics of uniformly rotating systems is presented and its predictions are discussed. In this case, due to paucity of experimental data, the nonlocal theory cannot be directly confronted with observation at present. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Bahram Mashhoon

Nonlinear light-matter interactions are typically enhanced by increasing the local field and its interaction time with matter. Conventional methods to achieve these goals are based on resonances or slow-light effects. However, these methods…

Recently it was proposed that extraordinary light waves in hyperbolic metamaterials exhibit two times physics behavior (Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 067402, 2010). We report experimental observation of this effect via investigation of gravity-like…

We report on the linear and nonlinear optical response of metamaterials evoked by first and second order multipoles. The analytical ground on which our approach bases permits for new insights into the functionality of metamaterials. For the…