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We model the effects of atomic thermal motion on the propagation of a light pulse in an electromagnetically induced transparency medium by introducing a set of effectively temperature-dependent parameters, including the Rabi frequency of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shih-Wei Su , Yi-Hsin Chen , Shih-Chuan Gou , Ite A. Yu

This article reviews recent advances in low-temperature electronic thermal transport properties of thermally biased superconductor heterostructures focusing on the two-terminal transport. Since the last decade, ferromagnetism has been…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-01 Paramita Dutta

This work summarizes recent progress on the thermal transport properties of three-dimensional (3D) nanostructures, with an emphasis on experimental results. Depending on the applications, different 3D nanostructures can be prepared or…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-16 Haifei Zhan , Yihan Nie , Yongnan Chen , John M. Bell , Yuantong Gu

Spatial tailoring of the material constitutive properties is a well-known strategy to mold the local flow of given observables in different physical domains. Coordinate-transformation-based methods (e.g., transformation optics) offer a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-05-14 Massimo Moccia , Giuseppe Castaldi , Salvatore Savo , Yuki Sato , Vincenzo Galdi

Understanding heat transport in low-dimensional and nano-architectured materials remains a central challenge in nonequilibrium statistical physics due to persistent deviations from Fourier's law. These deviations are driven by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 R. A. C. Correa , K. N. M. Sharma , P. Lolur , J. van Velzen

This roadmap presents the state-of-the-art, current challenges and near future developments anticipated in the thriving field of warm dense matter physics. Originating from strongly coupled plasma physics, high pressure physics and high…

Mechanical metamaterials leverage geometric design to achieve unconventional properties, such as high strength at low density, efficient wave guiding, and complex shape morphing. The ability to control shape changes builds on the complex…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Krzysztof K. Dudek , Muamer Kadic , Corentin Coulais , Katia Bertoldi

Electromagnetic metamaterials at microwave frequencies are well established in industry and research. Recent work has shown how a specific kind of metallic metamaterial can contribute towards improving the performance of the feedhorn…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-13 Javier De Miguel , Cristian Franceschet , Sabrina Realini , P. Fuerte-Rodríguez

Thermoelectric devices are heat engines, which operate as generators or refrigerators using the conduction electrons as a working fluid. The thermoelectric heat-to-work conversion efficiency has always been typically quite low, but much…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-11 G. Benenti , H. Ouerdane , C. Goupil

Metamaterials are beginning to transform optics and microwave technology thanks to their versatile properties that, in many cases, can be tailored according to practical needs and desires. Although metamaterials are surely not the answer to…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-16 Ulf Leonhardt , Thomas G. Philbin

This study explores the exciting properties of metamaterials and their innovative applications in non-Hermitian physics, with particular emphasis on the scattering formalism, a key topic of recent research. We have analyzed how light…

Material science is an important foundation of modern society development, covering significant areas like chemosynthesis and metamaterials. Click chemistry provides a simple and efficient paradigm for achieving molecular diversity by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Chengmeng Wang , Peng Jin , Fubao Yang , Liujun Xu , Jiping Huang

As the variation of temperature alters the intrinsic carrier density in a semiconductor, numerical simulations indicate that the consequent variation of the relative permittivity in the terahertz regime provides a way to realize thermally…

Optics · Physics 2009-05-02 Jiaguang Han , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

It is commonly assumed that the long-wavelength limit of a metamaterial can always be described in terms of effective permeability and permittivity tensors. This assumption holds true in all metamaterials considered up to now. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jonghwa Shin , Jung-Tsung Shen , Shanhui Fan

Thermoelectric metamaterials featuring width modulation through constrictions (constricted geometries) have emerged as a promising approach for improving heat management and thermoelectric performance. Through a combination of theoretical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Xanthippi Zianni

Controlling the thermal expansion of materials is of great technological importance. Uncontrolled thermal expansion can lead to failure or irreversible destruction of structures and devices. In ordinary crystals, thermal expansion is…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-10 Jingyuan Qu , Muamer Kadic , Andreas Naber , Martin Wegener

It is discussed that the classical effective medium theory for the elastic properties of random heterogeneous materials is not congruous with the effective medium theory for the electrical conductivity. In particular, when describing the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-17 Snarskii Andrei , Shamonin Mikhail , Yuskevich Pavel

Volumes of sub-wavelength electromagnetic elements can act like homogeneous materials: metamaterials. In analogy, sheets of optical elements such as prisms can act ray-optically like homogeneous sheet materials. In this sense, such sheets…

Optics · Physics 2009-01-27 Alasdair C. Hamilton , Johannes Courtial

The problem of definition of effective material parameters (permittivity and permeability) for composite layers containing only one-two parallel arrays of complex-shaped inclusions is discussed. Such structures are of high importance for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Elena Saenz , Pekka Ikonen , Ramon Gonzalo , Sergei Tretyakov

Through quantum mechanical considerations, we optimize the material response factor $|\chi|^2/\text{Im}\left[\chi \right]$, which plays a pivotal role in the fundamental limits of near-field radiative heat transfer (RHT). A comparison of…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-14 Ethan L. Crowell , Mark G. Kuzyk