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Topologically protected waves in the linearly polarized Maxwell's equations with gyrotropic, magneto-optic media were studied a decade ago both computationally and experimentally. This paper develops a robust tight-binding model for this…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole

The Maxwell equations for chiral media are treated with the aid of quaternionic analysis methods. Besides the possibility of simplification of the form of such basic facts like the Stratton-Chu formulas we obtain a criterion for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladislav Kravchenko , Hector Oviedo

This article is concerned with the time-harmonic electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a generic inhomogeneous medium. It is shown that if there is a right corner on the support of the medium, then it scatters every pair of incident EM…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Hongyu Liu , Jingni Xiao

After giving an outline of the quantization scheme based on the microscopic Hopfield model of a dielectric bulk material, we show how the classical phenomenological Maxwell equations of the electromagnetic field in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ludwig Knoll , Stefan Scheel , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

A novel time domain solver of Maxwell's equations in passive (dispersive and absorbing) media is proposed. The method is based on the path integral formalism of quantum theory and entails the use of ({\it i}) the Hamiltonian formalism and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Sergei V. Shabanov

Minkowski's concept of a four-dimensional physical space is a central paradigm of modern physics. The three-dimensional Maxwellian electrodynamics is uniquely generalized to the covariant four-dimensional form. Is the (1+3) decomposition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-08 Y. Itin , Y. Friedman

The paper formulates Maxwell's equations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space by embedding the electromagnetic vector potential in the frame vector $g_0$. Relativistic electrodynamics is the first problem tackled; in spite of using a geometry…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida

Within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics in linear, causal media, we study the van der Waals potentials of ground-state atoms in planar magnetodielectric host media. Our investigation extends earlier ones in two aspects:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-23 Agnes Sambale , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch , Ho Trung Dung , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

This paper extends approach of our joint paper with K\"{a}hler and recent paper of the author, published in 2021, on problems of the static Maxwell system in three dimensional inhomogeneous media. Applied pseudoanalytic function theory…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Dmitry Bryukhov

The cubic nonlinear Helmholtz equation with third and fourth order dispersion and non-Kerr nonlinearity like the self steepening and the self frequency shift is considered. This model describes nonparaxial ultrashort pulse propagation in an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-09-21 Naresh Saha , Barnana Roy , Avinash Khare

We derive basic equations of electromagnetic fields in fractal media which are specified by three indepedent fractal dimensions {\alpha}_{i} in the respective directions x_{i} (i=1,2,3) of the Cartesian space in which the fractal is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Martin Ostoja-Starzewski

A unified electrodynamic approach to the guided wave excitation by external sources in the waveguiding structures with bianisotropic media is developed. Effect of electric, magnetic, and magneto- electric losses in such media manifests…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Barybin

This paper studies highly oscillatory solutions to a class of systems of semilinear hyperbolic equations with a small parameter, in a setting that includes Klein--Gordon equations and the Maxwell--Lorentz system. The interest here is in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Julian Baumstark , Tobias Jahnke , Christian Lubich

The standard derivations of electromagnetic energy and momentum in media take Maxwell's equations as the starting point. It is well known that for dispersive media this approach does not directly yield exact expressions for the energy and…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. G. Philbin

We study Maxwell's equations in conducting media with perfectly conducting boundary conditions on Lipschitz domains, allowing rough material coefficients and $L^2$-data. Our first contribution is a direct proof of well-posedness of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Harbir Antil

We review Maxwell's equations and constitutive relations for 3D bianisotropic media in a generalized form: we consider all four variables and allow for nonzero polarization or magnetization, and also nonzero nonzero magnetic charge or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-12-23 Tharindu Fernando , Martin Licht , Michael Holst

We derive the essential space-time spectrum of the Maxwell equations in linear isotropic inhomogeneous media together with the corresponding essential modes. These modes represent the collapse of the electromagnetic field into a single…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neil V. Budko , Alexander B. Samokhin

Any optical structure possesses resonance modes and its response to an excitation can be decomposed onto the quasinormal and numerical modes of discretized Maxwell's operator. In this paper, we consider a dielectric permittivity that is a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Alexandre Gras , Philippe Lalanne , Marc Duruflé

We establish the well-posedness, the finite speed propagation, and a regularity result for Maxwell's equations in media consisting of dispersive (frequency dependent) metamaterials. Two typical examples for such metamaterials are materials…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Hoai-Minh Nguyen , Valentin Vinoles

Pseudo-Hermitian operators appear in the solution of Maxwell's equations for stationary non-dispersive media with arbitrary (space-dependent) permittivity and permeability tensors. We offer an extension of the results in this direction to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ali Mostafazadeh