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In electromagnetic statics, the standard procedure to determine the electric scalar potential or magnetic vector potential in a bounded space is to solve Poisson's equation subject to certain boundary conditions. On the other hand, as a…

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In plasma simulations, where the speed of light divided by a characteristic length is at a much higher frequency than other relevant parameters in the underlying system, such as the plasma frequency, implicit methods begin to play an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-30 Yingda Cheng , Andrew J. Christlieb , Wei Guo , Benjamin Ong

This paper suggests an axiomatic approach to Maxwell's equations. The basis of this approach is a theorem formulated for two sets of functions localized in space and time. If each set satisfies a continuity equation then the theorem…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 José A. Heras

An easily constructed and operated polarimeter precisely determines the relative Stokes parameters that characterize the polarization of laser light. The polarimeter is calibrated in situ without removing or realigning its optical elements,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-22 V. Wirthl , C. D. Panda , P. W. Hess , B. Spaun , G. Gabrielse

The classical free-space solutions of Maxwell's equations for light propagation in one dimension include wave packets of any shape that travel at the speed of light. This includes highly-localised wave packets that remain localised at all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Daniel Hodgson , Jake Southall , Robert Purdy , Almut Beige

This work is on the numerical approximation of incoming solutions to Maxwell's equations with dissipative boundary conditions whose energy decays exponentially with time. Such solutions are called asymptotically disappearing (ADS) and they…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-23 James H. Adler , Vesselin Petkov , Ludmil T. Zikatanov

Full-wave simulations are indispensable for nanophotonics and electromagnetics but are severely constrained on large systems, especially multi-channel ones such as disordered media, aperiodic metasurfaces, and densely packed photonic…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-21 Ho-Chun Lin , Zeyu Wang , Chia Wei Hsu

Three thought experiments demonstrate that under certain circumstances electromagnetic fields have to be attenuated or amplified multiplicatively in order not to violate the conservation of energy. Modulation of radiation by means other…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Joerg Fricke

This paper aims to show that making use of Newton's view on equations of motion of a physical system and of the Maxwell stress tensor we come to a natural nonlinearization of Maxwell equations in vacuum making use only of nonrelativistic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-08-27 Stoil Donev , Maria Tashkova

Two methods are explained to exactly solve Maxwell's equations where permittivity, permeability and conductivity may vary in space. In the constitutive relations, retardation is regarded. If the material properties depend but on one…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-20 Ulrich Brosa

Maxwell's equations are modified to incorporate a scalar field to account for the London's superconductivity. Assuming the electromagnetic field is described by the Klein-Gordon equation, London's equations of superconductivity are then…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 A. I. Arbab

An optimal estimate for Stokes parameters is derived for the situation in X-ray astronomy where the instrument has a modulation factor that varies significantly with energy but the signals are very weak or mildly polarized. For such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Herman L. Marshall

In a gravitational field, we analyze the Maxwell equations, the correponding electromagnetic wave and continuity equations. A particular solution for parellel electric and magnetic fields in a gravitational background is presented. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sortelano Araujo Diniz , Carlos Pinheiro , F. C. Khanna

We study, for times of order 1/h, solutions of Maxwell's equations in an O(h^2) modulation of an h-periodic medium. The solutions are of slowly varying amplitude type built on Bloch plane waves with wavelength of order h. We construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Grégoire Allaire , Mariapia Palombaro , Jeffrey Rauch

By modeling a linear, anisotropic and inhomogeneous magnetodielectric medium with two independent set of harmonic oscillators, electromagnetic field is quantized in such a medium. The electric and magnetic polarizations of the medium are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 M. Amooshahi , F. Kheirandish

In this letter we describe a new and simple approach for modulating the electromagnetic wave propagating in a dielectric medium in the form of solitons by considering the torque developed between the induced dipoles in the medium and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Veerakumar , M. Daniel

In this article we consider an inverse boundary value problem for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations. We show that the electromagnetic material parameters are determined by boundary measurements where part of the boundary data is measured…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Francis J. Chung , Petri Ola , Mikko Salo , Leo Tzou

We use Maxwell's equations in a sourceless, inhomogeneous medium with continuous permeability $\mu (\mathbf{r}) $ and permittivity $% \epsilon (\mathbf{r}) $ to study the wave propagation. The general form of the wave equation is derived…

General Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 S. Habib Mazharimousavi , Ashkan Roozbeh , M. Halilsoy

We introduce a new notion of "matrix potential" to nonlinear optical systems. In terms of a matrix potential $g$, we present a gauge field theoretic formulation of the Maxwell-Bloch equation that provides a semiclassical description of the…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-30 Q-Han Park , H. J. Shin

The classification of exact solutions of Maxwell vacuum equations for the case when the electromagnetic fields and metrics of homogeneous spaces are invariant with respect to the motion group G(VII) is completed. All non-equivalent exact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 V. V. Obukhov