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Existence of a protected surface state described by a massless Dirac equation is a defining property of the topological insulator. Though this statement can be explicitly verified on an idealized flat surface, it remains to be addressed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-18 Yositake Takane , Ken-Ichiro Imura

The study of waveguide propagating modes is essential for achieving directional electronic transport in two-dimensional materials. Simultaneously, exploring potential gaps in these systems is crucial for developing devices akin to those…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 V. G. Ibarra-Sierra , E. J. Robles-Raygoza , J. C. Sandoval-Santana , R. Carrillo-Bastos

We devise a new time-stepping algorithm for two-dimensional nonlinear unsteady surface and interfacial waves. The algorithm uses Cauchy's integral formula, which only requires information on the interface, to solve Laplace equation by using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-12-21 Xin Guan , Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck

We report on the theoretical and experimental realization of a double-zero-index elastic waveguide and on the corresponding acoustic cloacking and supercoupling effects. The proposed waveguide uses geometric tapers in order to induce…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-03 Hongfei Zhu , Fabio Semperlotti

We study the one-dimensional Dirac equation in the framework of a position dependent mass under the action of a Woods-Saxon external potential. We find that constraining appropriately the mass function it is possible to obtain a solution of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Panella , S. Biondini , A. Arda

Approximate scattering and bound state solutions of the one-dimensional effective-mass Dirac equation with the Woods-Saxon potential are obtained in terms of the hypergeometric-type functions. Transmission and reflection coefficients are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-01 Oktay Aydoğdu , Altug Arda , Ramazan Sever

Wave propagation in time-varying media has attracted significant attention for its innovative potential to control wave-matter interactions and to develop versatile active materials. While most research has focused on electromagnetic waves,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-22 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

In this work we present an adaptive boundary element method for computing the electromagnetic response of wave interactions in hyperbolic metamaterials. One unique feature of hyperbolic metamaterial is the strongly directional wave in its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Junshan Lin

Interactions between an evolving solid and inviscid flow can result in substantial computational complexity, particularly in circumstances involving varied boundary conditions between the solid and fluid phases. Examples of such…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-30 Emma M. Schmidt , J. Matt Quinlan , Brandon Runnels

Part I of this paper introduced the infinite dimensional Lagrange-Dirac theory for physical systems on the space of differential forms over a smooth manifold with boundary. This approach is particularly well-suited for systems involving…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 François Gay-Balmaz , Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Hiroaki Yoshimura

We investigate the transition radiation on a periodically deformed interface between two dielectric media. Under the assumption that the dielectric permittivities of the media are close, a formula is derived for the spectral-angular…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-16 A. R. Mkrtchyan , A. P. Potylitsyn , V. R. Kocharyan , A. A. Saharian

A new geometric approach to systems with boundary energy flow is developed using infinite-dimensional Dirac structures within the Lagrangian formalism. This framework satisfies a list of consistency criteria with the geometric setting of…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 François Gay-Balmaz , Álvaro Rodríguez Abella , Hiroaki Yoshimura

In this paper, we consider an acoustic wave transmission problem with mixed boundary conditions of Dirichlet, Neumann, and impedance type. The transmission interfaces may join the domain boundary in a general way independent of the location…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Sarah Eberle , Francesco Florian , Ralf Hiptmair , Stefan A. Sauter

In this paper we introduce a method for solving linear and nonlinear scattering problems for wave equations using a new hybrid approach. This new approach consists of a reformulation of the governing equations into a form that can be solved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-04 Aihua Lin , Anastasiia Kuzmina , Per Kristen Jakobsen

We analyze continuous partial differential models of topological insulators in the form of systems of Dirac equations. We describe the bulk and interface topological properties of the materials by means of indices of Fredholm operators…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Guillaume Bal

Magnetic texturing on the surface of a topological insulator allows the design of wave guide networks and beam splitters for domain-wall Dirac fermions. Guided by simple analytic arguments we model a Dirac fermion interferometer consisting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 René Hammer , Christian Ertler , Walter Pötz

We calculate the tunneling process of a Dirac particle across two square barriers separated a distance $d$, as well as the scattering by a double cusp barrier where the centers of the cusps are separated a distance larger than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Victor M. Villalba , Luis Gonzalez-Arraga

A symmetric boundary integral formulation for the transient scattering of acoustic waves off homogeneous and isotropic elastic obstacles is analyzed. Both the acoustic scattered field and the elastodynamic excited field are represented…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Tonatiuh Sánchez-Vizuet

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-09 xiaodong Liu , Bo Zhang

The main objective of this work is to present a theoretical proposal for an implementation of the $(2 + 1)$-dimensional Dirac equation in classical gravitational and electromagnetic backgrounds in a two-dimensional waveguide array. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 Christian Koke , Changsuk Noh , Dimitris G. Angelakis