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A self-consistent theory for the classical description of the interaction of light and matter at the nano-scale is presented, which takes into account spatial dispersion. Up to now, the Maxwell equations in nanostructured materials with…
In this work, we investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the Cole-Cole dispersive medium by using the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method to solve the coupled time-domain Maxwell's equations and polarization equation. We…
This work demonstrates electron energy loss spectroscopy of 2D materials in a 1-30 keV electron microscope, observing 100-times stronger electron-matter coupling relative to 125 keV microscopes. We observe that the universal curve relating…
Semiconductor-based plasmonic nanostructures support localized surface plasmon modes in the infrared region. Unlike metallic nanostructures, they support both free electrons and holes, requiring a two-fluid hydrodynamic Drude equation (HDE)…
Local, bulk response functions, e.g permittivity, and the macroscopic Maxwell equations completely specify the classical electromagnetic problem, which features only wavelength $\lambda$ and geometric scales. The above neglect of intrinsic…
This work aims at presenting a Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) formulation employing a spectral basis for two important models employed in cardiac electrophysiology, namely the monodomain and bidomain models. The use of DG methods is motivated…
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The interaction of light with metallic nanostructures produces a collective excitation of electrons at the metal surface, also known as surface plasmons. These collective excitations lead to resonances that enable the confinement of light…
To solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in spatially inhomogeneous pulses of electromagnetic radiation, we propose an iterative semi-classical complex trajectory approach. In numerical applications, we validate this method…
Spacetime Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are used to solve hyperbolic PDEs describing wavelike physical phenomena. When the PDEs are nonlinear, the speed of propagation of the phenomena, called the wavespeed, at any point in the…
Using the partition-free time-dependent Landauer-B{\"u}ttiker formalism for transient current correlations, we study the traversal times taken for electrons to cross graphene nanoribbon (GNR) molecular junctions. We demonstrate electron…
Incorporation of plasmonic nanostructures in the design of photoconductive devices (PCDs) has significantly improved their optical-to-terahertz conversion efficiency. However, this improvement comes at the cost of increased complexity for…
We review different computational methods for the calculation of photoelectron spectra and angular distributions of atoms and molecules when excited by laser pulses using time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) that are suitable…
In this article, we investigate some issues related to the quantification of uncertainties associated with the electrical properties of graphene nanoribbons. The approach is suited to understand the effects of missing information linked to…
The set of benchmark solutions used in the thermal radiative transfer community suffer some coverage gaps, in particular nonlinear, non-equilibrium problems. Also, there are no non-equilibrium, optically thick benchmarks. These shortcomings…
We solve the problem of electron scattering at a potential temporal step discontinuity. We show that the Schrodinger equation cannot account for scattering in this problem, necessitating resort to the Dirac equation, and that breaking gauge…
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We introduce an immersed high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for solving the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on non-boundary-fitted meshes. The flow equations are discretised with a mixed discontinuous Galerkin formulation and are…