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We investigate light propagation through materials with periodically modulated gain/loss profile in both transverse and longitudinal directions, i.e. in material with two-dimensional modulation in space. We predict effects of…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-27 K. Staliunas , R. Herrero , R. Vilaseca

We study the spatio-temporal evolution of wave packets in one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattices which localize linear waves. Nonlinearity (related to two-body interactions) has destructive effect on localization, as recently observed for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-26 Marco Larcher , Tetyana V. Laptyeva , Joshua D. Bodyfelt , Franco Dalfovo , Michele Modugno , Sergej Flach

One dimensional system of Dirac fermions with a random-varying mass is studied by the transfer-matrix methods which we developed recently. We investigate the effects of nonlocal correlation of the spatial-varying Dirac mass on the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Koujin Takeda , Ikuo Ichinose

Discrete materials composed of masses connected by strongly nonlinear links with anomalous behavior (reduction of elastic modulus with strain) have very interesting wave dynamics. Such links may be composed of materials exhibiting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-08-26 Eric B Herbold , Vitali F Nesterenko

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

The presence of both inversion ($P$) and time-reversal ($T$) symmetries in solids leads to a well-known double degeneracy of the electronic bands (Kramers degeneracy). When the degeneracy is lifted, spin textures can be directly observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 H. Nakamura , D. Huang , J. Merz , E. Khalaf , P. Ostrovsky , A. Yaresko , D. Samal , H. Takagi

An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

We study the mass fluctuations in gapped Dirac materials by treating the mass-term as both a continuous and discrete random variable. Gapped Dirac materials were proposed to be used as materials for Dark matter sensors. One thus would need…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-22 Bart Olsthoorn , Alexander V. Balatsky

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating slab (between two parallel planes) in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Adel Messaoudi , Régis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

The standard diffusive spreading, characterized by a Gaussian distribution with mean square displacement that grows linearly with time, can break down, for instance, under the presence of correlations and heterogeneity. In this work, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 M. A. F. dos Santos , E. H. Colombo , C. Anteneodo

The scattering of electromagnetic waves from obstacles with wave-material interaction in thin layers on the surface is described by generalized impedance boundary conditions, which provide effective approximate models. In particular, this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-04 Jörg Nick , Balázs Kovács , Christian Lubich

The localization of waves in two-dimensional clusters of scatterers arranged in relatively twisted lattices is studied by multiple scattering theory. It is found that, for a given frequency, it is always possible to find localized modes for…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-20 Dani Torrent , Marc Martí-Sabaté

The temporal Talbot effect refers to the periodic revivals of a pulse train propagating in a dispersive medium, and is a temporal analog of the spatial Talbot effect with group-velocity dispersion in time replacing diffraction in space.…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Layton A. Hall , Sergey A. Ponomarenko , Ayman F. Abouraddy

We consider theoretically as a function of temperature the plasmon mode arising in three-dimensional Dirac liquids, i.e., systems with linear chiral relativistic single-particle dispersion, within the random phase approximation. We find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Johannes Hofmann , S. Das Sarma

We review recent progress in analysing wave scattering in systems with both intrinsic chaos and/or disorder and internal losses, when the scattering matrix is no longer unitary. By mapping the problem onto a nonlinear supersymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. V. Fyodorov , D. V. Savin , H. -J. Sommers

We develop the theory of acoustic wave propagation in a waveguide containing an array of time modulated digital meta-atoms, showing the equivalence between this array and a homogeneous, time varying, dispersive material. In the limit of an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 S. A. R. Horsley

A mass ejection model in a time-dependent random environment with both temporal and spatial correlations is introduced. When the environment has a finite correlation length, individual particle trajectories are found to diffuse at large…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-28 Giorgio Krstulovic , Rehab Bitane , Jeremie Bec

Recent progresses in single particle tracking have shown evidences of non-Gaussian distribution of displacements in living cells, both near the cellular membrane and inside the cytoskeleton. A similar behavior has also been observed in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Yann Lanoiselée , Denis S. Grebenkov

To obtain the most accurate pulse arrival times from radio pulsars, it is necessary to correct or mitigate the effects of the propagation of radio waves through the warm and ionised interstellar medium. We examine both the strength of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 R. M. Shannon , J. M. Cordes

It is shown that the carrier of a bounded localized free Dirac wavefunction shrinks from infinity and subsequently expands to infinity again. The motion occurs isotropicly at the speed of light. In between there is the phase of rebound,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 Domenico P. L. Castrigiano