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Dynamic and steady state aspects of wave propagation are deeply connected in lossless open systems in which the scattering matrix is unitary. There is then an equivalence among the energy excited within the medium, the Wigner time delay,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-06-25 Yiming Huang , Yuhao Kang , Azriel Z. Genack

Manipulation of radiation is required for enabling a span of electromagnetic applications. Since properties of antennas and scatterers are very sensitive to a surrounding environment, macroscopic artificially created materials are good…

Space-time modulated elastic media, whose material properties vary in both space and time, have attracted significant attention as a promising strategy for achieving nonreciprocal propagation of elastic waves. To date, most studies have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yingrui Ye , Chunxia Liu , Xiaopeng Wang , Antonio Palermo

We propose the suppression of dispersive spreading of wave packets governed by the free-space Schr\"odinger equation with a periodically pulsed nonlinear term. Using asymptotic analysis, we construct stroboscopically-dispersionless quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-20 Arseni Goussev , Phillipp Reck , Florian Moser , Antonio Moro , Cosimo Gorini , Klaus Richter

An elastic ideal 2D propagation medium, i.e., a membrane, can be simulated by models discretizing the wave equation on the time-space grid (finite difference methods), or locally discretizing the solution of the wave equation (waveguide…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-21 Federico Fontana , Davide Rocchesso

Photonic time interfaces, as the temporal analogue of spatial interfaces between two media, consist of a rapid change of the electromagnetic properties of a material (such as permittivity {\epsilon}, and permeability {\mu}) while the wave…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-22 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

Flexible dispersion manipulation is critical for holography to achieve broadband imaging or frequency division multiplexing. Within this context, metasurface-based holography offers advanced dispersion control, yet dynamic reconfigurability…

This paper presents an analytical framework for the study of scattering and diffraction phenomena in spacetime-modulated metallic gratings. Using a Lorentz transformation, it is shown that a particular class of spacetime-modulated gratings…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Antonio Alex-Amor , Carlos Molero , Mário G. Silveirinha

In this paper, we have proposed a dispersive formulation of scalar-based meshless method for time-domain analysis of electromagnetic wave propagation through left-handed (LH) materials. Moreover, we have incorporated Berenger's perfectly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-09 Sheyda Shams , Farzad Mohajeri , Masoud Movahhedi

We prove the possibility of achieving exponentially growing wave propagation in space-time modulated media and give an asymptotic analysis of the quasifrequencies in terms of the amplitude of the time modulation at the degenerate points of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Xinmeng Zeng

We study cumulative scattering effects on wave front propagation in time dependent randomly layered media. It is well known that the wave front has a deterministic characterization in time independent media, aside from a small random shift…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Liliana Borcea , Knut Solna

The accuracy of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modelling of left-handed metamaterials (LHMs) is dramatically improved by using an averaging technique along the boundaries of LHM slabs. The material frequency dispersion of LHMs is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Yan Zhao , Pavel Belov , Yang Hao

In this work, the author developed a multiple scattering model for heterogeneous elastic continua with strong property fluctuation and obtained the exact solution to the dispersion equation derived from the Dyson equation under the…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-06-29 Huijing He

We propose the synthesis of frequency dispersion of layered structures based on the design of multi-ordered optical filters using nanocircuit concepts. Following the well known insertion loss method commonly employed in the design of…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 Yue Li , Iñigo Liberal , Nader Engheta

Inversion of Rayleigh-wave dispersion data is particularly challenging at sites with strong impedance contrasts, where modal energy often transitions smoothly from the fundamental to higher modes at low frequencies. Analysts may…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-12-15 Mrinal Bhaumik , Brady R. Cox

This work investigates the effects of time-varying media, where optical properties change over time, on electromagnetic wave propagation, focusing on plane waves and free-electron evanescent waves. We introduce a switching parameter,…

We provide an analytical formulation to model the propagation of elastic waves in a homogeneous half-space supporting an array of thin plates. The technique provides the displacement field obtained from the interaction between an incident…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Xingbo Pu , Antonio Palermo , Alessandro Marzani

Diffusion metamaterials with artificial spatial structures have significant potential in controlling energy and mass transfer. Those static structures may lead to functionality and tunability constraints, impeding the application scope of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Jinrong Liu , Liujun Xu , Jiping Huang

The physics of waves in time-varying media provides numerous opportunities for wave control that are unattainable with static media. In particular, Floquet systems with a periodic time modulation are currently of considerable interest.…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-21 David Globosits , Jakob Hüpfl , Stefan Rotter

Normal-incidence transmission and dispersion properties of optical multilayers and one-dimensional stepwise potential barriers in the non-tunneling regime are analytically investigated. The optical paths of every constituent layer in a…

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