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This paper investigates solitary water waves propagating along the surface of a two-dimensional dielectric fluid with constant vorticity in the presence of an external electric field. We formulate the system as a nonlinear free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tingting Feng , Yong Zhang , Zhitao Zhang

The polarization of radiation by scattering on an atom embedded in combined external quadrupole electric and uniform magnetic fields is studied theoretically. Limiting cases of scattering under Zeeman effect and Hanle effect in weak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yee Yee Oo , M. Sampoorna , K. N. Nagendra , Sharath Ananthamurthy , G. Ramachandran

We demonstrate, both theoretically and experimentally, that arbitrary scatterers preserving parity-time-duality ($\mathcal{P}\cdot\mathcal{T}\cdot\mathcal{D}$) symmetry inherently produce a backscattered wave whose electric field is the…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-23 Roee Geva , Mário G. Silveirinha , Raphael Kastner

Polarization, spin, and helicity are important properties of electromagnetic waves. It is commonly believed that helicity is invariant under the Lorentz transformations. This is indeed so for plane waves and their localized superpositions.…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-08 Konstantin Y. Bliokh

It is shown that electromagnetic vortices can act as beam guides for charged particles. The confinement in the transverse directions is due to the rotation of the electric and magnetic fields around the vortex line. Large class of exact…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

Scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves by many small particles (bodies), embedded in a thin layer, is studied. Physical properties of the particles are described by their boundary impedances. The thin layer of depth of the order $O(a)$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 A. G. Ramm

Scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves by one and many small ($ka\ll 1$) impedance particles $D_m$ of an arbitrary shape, embedded in a homogeneous medium, is studied. Analytic formula for the field, scattered by one particle, is derived.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-04-10 A. G. Ramm

Departure from idealised plane waves gives rise to intricate geometric structures in wave fields. One such structure is the polarisation singularity, which emerges when multiple monochromatic waves interfere (such as would be the case for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-02 Claire Rigouzzo , Sebastian Golat , Alex J. Vernon , Kyan Louisia , Eugene Lim , Francisco J. Rodriguez-Fortuno

The singularities of the electromagnetic field are derived to include all the point-like multipoles representing an electric charge and current distribution. Firstly derived in the static case, the result is generalized to the dynamic one.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Vrejoiu , R. Zus

Electromagnetic wave scattering by many parallel infinite cylinders is studied asymptotically as $a\to 0$. Here $a$ is the radius of the cylinders. It is assumed that the points $\hat{x}_m$ are distributed so that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Alexander G. Ramm

The singularities of the electromagnetic field are derived to include all the point-like multipoles representing an electric charge and current distribution. Partial results obtained in a previous paper are completed to represent accurately…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-01-26 Constantin Vrejoiu , Roxana Zus

Motivated by previous investigations on the radiative effects of the electric dipoles embedded in structured cavities, localization of electromagnetic waves in two dimensions is studied {\it ab initio} for a system consisting of many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhen Ye , Sheng Li , Xin Sub

Partially coherent electromagnetic sources with cylindrical symmetry and infinite extent radiating outwards are introduced. Their 3x3 cross-spectral density matrix is given through expansions of the field components in terms of basis…

An explanation of polarization entanglement is presented using Maxwells classical electromagnetic theory.Two key features are required to understand these classical origins.The first is that all waves diffract and weakly diffracting…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 John E. Carroll

It is shown that geometric optical description of electromagnetic wave with account of its polarization in curved space-time can be obtained straightforwardly from the classical variational principle for electromagnetic field. For this end…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Ya. Turakulov , A. T. Muminov

Optical singularities manifesting at the center of vector vortex beams are unstable, since their topological charge is higher than the lowest value permitted by Maxwell's equations. Inspired by conceptually similar phenomena occurring in…

We provide for the first time the exact solution of Maxwell's equations for a massless charged particle moving on a generic trajectory at the speed of light. In particular we furnish explicit expressions for the vector potential and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Francesco Azzurli , Kurt Lechner

A classical circularly polarized electromagnetic wave carries angular momentum, and represents the classical limit of a photon, which carries quantized spin. It is shown that a very similar picture of a circularly polarized coherent wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Kadin

The features of the scattering of massive neutral particles propagating in the field of a gravitational plane wave are compared with those characterizing their interaction with an electromagnetic radiation field. The motion is geodesic in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Maria Haney , Robert T. Jantzen

Light scattering in random media is usually considered within the framework of the three-dimensional Anderson universality class, with modifications for the vector nature of electromagnetic waves. We propose that the linear dispersiveness…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-05 Tobias Micklitz , Alexander Altland