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In this work we show theoretically that it is possible to design a large band gap in the infrared range using a one-dimensional Photonic Crystal heterostructure made of porous silicon. Stacking together multiple photonic crystal…

Photonic crystals (PhCs) have emerged as a popular platform for realizing various topological phases due to their flexibility and potential for device applications. In this article, we present a comprehensive classification of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sachin Vaidya , Ali Ghorashi , Thomas Christensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Wladimir A. Benalcazar

The purpose of this work is to introduce and analyze a numerical scheme to efficiently solve boundary value problems involving the spectral fractional Laplacian. The approach is based on a reformulation of the problem posed on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-17 Dominik Meidner , Johannes Pfefferer , Klemens Schürholz , Boris Vexler

Complex processes in perforated domains occur in many real-world applications. These problems are typically characterized by physical processes in domains with multiple scales (see Figure 1 for the illustration of a perforated domain).…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Eric T. Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Guanglian Li , Maria Vasilyeva

A theoretical analysis of the finite element method for a generalized Robin boundary value problem, which involves a second-order differential operator on the boundary, is presented. If $\Omega$ is a general smooth domain with a curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Takahito Kashiwabara

The finite difference time domain method is one of the simplest and most popular methods in computational electromagnetics. This work considers two possible ways of generalising it to a meshless setting by employing local radial basis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Andrej Kolar-Požun , Gregor Kosec

We consider two-dimensional phononic crystals formed from silicon and voids, and present optimized unit cell designs for (1) out-of-plane, (2) in-plane and (3) combined out-of-plane and in-plane elastic wave propagation. To feasibly search…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-04-23 Osama R. Bilal , Mahmoud I. Hussein

We propose a method derived from the simple plane wave expansion that can easily solve the interface problem between vacuum and a semi-infinite photonic crystal. The method is designed to find the complete set of all the eigenfunctions,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Young-Chung Hsue , Tzong-Jer Yang

We report a new computational method based on the recursive Green's function technique for calculation of light propagation in photonic crystal structures. The advantage of this method in comparison to the conventional finite-difference…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. I. Rahachou , I. V. Zozoulenko

A finite difference numerical method is investigated for fractional order diffusion problems in one space dimension. For this, a mathematical model is developed to incorporate homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann type boundary conditions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Béla J. Szekeres , Ferenc Izsák

A finite difference method (FDM) applicable to a two dimensional (2D) quantum dot was developed as a non-conventional approach to the theoretical understandings of quantum devices. This method can be applied to a realistic potential with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Jai Seok Ahn

The aim of this paper is to show how rapidly decaying RBF Lagrange functions on the spheres can be used to create effective, stable finite difference methods based on radial basis functions (RBF-FD). For certain classes of PDEs this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-17 Wolfgang Erb , Thomas Hangelbroek , Francis J. Narcowich , Christian Rieger , Joseph D. Ward

We present a new mimetic finite difference method for diffusion problems that converges on grids with \textit{curved} (i.e., non-planar) faces. Crucially, it gives a symmetric discrete problem that uses only one discrete unknown per curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Silvano Pitassi , Riccardo Ghiloni , Igor Petretti , Francesco Trevisan , Ruben Specogna

We present domain decomposition finite element/finite difference method for the solution of hyperbolic equation. The domain decomposition is performed such that finite elements and finite differences are used in different subdomains of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-23 L. Beilina

We discuss realization, properties and performance of the adaptive finite element approach to the design of nano-photonic components. Central issues are the construction of vectorial finite elements and the embedding of bounded components…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jan Pomplun , Sven Burger , Lin Zschiedrich , Frank Schmidt

We study effects of finite height and surrounding material on photonic crystal slabs of one- and two-dimensional photonic crystals with a pseudo-spectral method and finite difference time domain simulation methods. The band gap is shown to…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Huttunen , K. Varis , K. Kataja , J. Aikio , P. Torma

In the first part of this introductory review we outline the developments in photonic band gap materials from the physics of photonic band gap formation to the fabrication and potential applications of photonic crystals. We briefly describe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Dimitris G. Angelakis , Peter L. Knight , Emmanuel Paspalakis

Topological photonics is developed based on the analogy of Schr\"{o}dinger equation which is mathematically reduced to a standard eigenvalue equation. Notably, several photonic systems are beyond the standard topological band theory as they…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-16 Takuma Isobe , Tsuneya Yoshida , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

A finite element method (FEM) for solving the complex valued k({\omega}) vs. {\omega} dispersion curve of a 3D metamaterial/photonic crystal system is presented. This 3D method is a generalization of a previously reported 2D eigenvalue…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Chris Fietz , Yaroslav Urzhumov , Gennady Shvets

We investigate the optical properties of a photonic crystal composed of a quasi-one-dimensional flat-band lattice array through finite-difference time-domain simulations. The photonic bands contain flat bands (FBs) at specific frequencies,…