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A low loss propagating electromagnetic wave is shown to exist at a gradual interface between two lossy conductive media. The electromagnetic frequency range of this phenomenon may span from UV optics to RF range. In particular, it is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Igor I. Smolyaninov

We study the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves by random arrays of dipolar cylinders in a uniform medium. A set of self-consistent equations, incorporating all orders of multiple scattering of the electromagnetic waves, is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

The mechanics of lower dimensional elastic structures depends strongly on the geometry of their stress-free state. Elastic deformations separate into in-plane stretching and lower energy out-of-plane bending deformations. For elastic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-20 Jonathan Kernes , Alex J. Levine

We study a new mechanism of wave/electron scattering in multi-mode surface-corrugated waveguides/wires. This mechanism is due to specific square-gradient terms in an effective Hamiltonian describing the surface scattering, that were…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov , M. Rendon

Scattering of normally incident longitudinal and transverse acoustic waves by a randomly rough surface of an elastically isotropic solid is analyzed within the small perturbation approach. In the limiting case of a large correlation length…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-04 A. A. Maznev

The boundaries of waveguides and nanowires have drastic influence on their coherent scattering properties. Designing the boundary profile is thus a promising approach for transmission and band-gap engineering with many applications. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 O. Dietz , H. -J. Stöckmann , U. Kuhl , F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov , J. Doppler , F. Libisch , S. Rotter

Dynamic modulation of material properties in space and time enables powerful control over wave propagation, yet existing theories largely rely on idealized, nondispersive models. In realistic media, frequency dispersion can strongly reshape…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

The increasing density of space objects in low-Earth orbit highlights the critical need for accurate orbit predictions to minimise operational disruptions. One significant challenge lies in accurately modelling the interaction of gas…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-19 Sabin Viorel Anton , Bernardo Sousa Alves , Christian Siemes , Jose van den IJssel , Pieter N. A. M. Visser

Radiation of a charged particle moving parallel to a inhomogeneous surface is considered. Within a single formalism periodic and random gratings are examined. For the periodically inhomogeneous surface we derive new expressions for the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Zh. S. Gevorkian

We investigate the transmission of scalar, electromagnetic, and linearized odd-parity gravitational waves in a static spacetime characterized by a spherical distribution of matter in the form of thin concentric equidistant shells of equal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-04 Rubén O. Acuña-Cárdenas , Olivier Sarbach , Luca Tessieri

At millimeter-wave frequencies, diffuse scattering from rough surfaces is an important propagation mechanism. Including this mechanism in radio propagation modeling tools,such as ray-tracing, is a key step towards realizing accurate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-16 Stefanos Bakirtzis , Takahiro Hashimoto , Costas D. Sarris

We present an analysis of enhanced wave transmission through random media with mirror symmetry about a reflecting barrier. The mathematical model is the acoustic wave equation and we consider two setups, where the wave propagation is along…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

Dispersive waves in two-dimensional blocky materials with periodic microstructure made up of equal rigid units having polygonal centro-symmetric shape with mass and gyroscopic inertia, connected each other through homogeneous linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrea Bacigalupo , Luigi Gambarotta

We investigate spin-wave propagation in magnetic insulators in the presence of lattice dislocations. Within a continuum magnetoelastic framework, we show that the strain fields generated by dislocations induce equilibrium magnetic textures.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Cristobal Larronde , Ignacio Castro , Alvaro S. Nunez , Roberto E. Troncoso , Nicolas Vidal-Silva

Wave phenomena in vibrofluidized dry and partially wet granular materials confined in a quasi-two-dimensional geometry are investigated with numerical simulations considering individual particles as hard spheres. Short ranged cohesive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-06-06 Kai Huang

We present an analysis of wave propagation in a two step-index, parallel waveguide system. The goal is to quantify the effect of scattering at randomly perturbed interfaces between the guiding layers of high index of refraction and the host…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

A theoretical analysis of the statistical distributions of the reflected intensities from random media is presented. We use random matrix theory to analytically deduce the probability densities in the localization regime. Numerical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Garcia-Martin , T. Lopez-Ciudad , J. J. Saenz , M. Nieto-Vesperinas

In this work, the analysis of oblique anti-plane shear waves propagation and scattering in low frequency resonant micro-structured layered media with viscoelastic constituent layers is presented. The band structure of the infinitely…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 Vahidreza Alizadeh , Alireza V. Amirkhizi

Internal waves propagate on the ocean's stratification, carrying energy and redistributing momentum through the ocean. When internal waves break, they contribute to diapycnal mixing in the ocean interior, but this breaking behaviour depends…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Ashley J. Barnes , Callum J. Shakespeare , Andy McC. Hogg , Navid C. Constantinou

This paper presents a new method to model X-ray scattering on random rough surfaces. It combines the approaches we presented in two previous papers -- \zs\cite{zhao03} \& \pz\cite{zhao15}. An actual rough surface is (incompletely) described…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Ping Zhao