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In this article, we introduce a new viewpoint on electromagnetic scattering. Tailoring spectral electromagnetic response underpins important applications ranging from sensing to energy conversion, and is flourishing with new ideas from…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-09 Lang Zhang , Francesco Monticone , Owen D. Miller

The concept of twistronics and moir\'e physics, which is present in twisted two-dimensional bilayer materials, has recently attracted growing attention in various fields of science and engineering such as condensed matter physics,…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-18 Grigorii Ptitcyn , Nader Engheta

The study of the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a linear isotropic medium with planar symmetry can be reduced to that of their TE and TM modes. For situations where the medium consists of parallel homogeneous slabs, one may use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

A method is proposed for the analysis of the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a homogeneous slab of a medium with Drude-Lorentz dispersion behavior, and excited by a causal sinusoidal source. An expression of the time dependent…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-13 Mohamed Ismail , Boris Gralak

Suppression of wave scattering and the realization of transparency effects in engineered optical media and surfaces have attracted great attention in the past recent years. In this work the problem of transparency is considered for optical…

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This paper studies time-dependent electromagnetic scattering from metamaterials that are described by dispersive material laws. We consider the numerical treatment of a scattering problem in which a dispersive material law, for a causal and…

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A frequency-based omni-temporal dispersion theory is developed to capture the transient interplay between diffusion, advection, and reaction during solute transport through porous media. Unlike classical asymptotic dispersion theories,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-19 Md Abdul Hamid , Kyle C. Smith

We consider the propagation of acoustic time-harmonic waves in a homogeneous media containing periodic lattices of spherical or cylindrical inclusions. It is assumed that the wavelength has the order of the periods of the lattice while the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-04 Yuri A. Godin , Boris Vainberg

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating half-space in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an asymptotic analysis of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Adel Messaoudi , Regis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

This paper is concerned with the time-dependent Maxwell's equations for a plane interface between a negative material described by the Drude model and the vacuum, which fill, respectively, two complementary half-spaces. In a first paper, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Maxence Cassier , Christophe Hazard , Patrick Joly

The reflection and transmission amplitudes of waves in disordered multimode waveguides are studied by means of numerical simulations based on the invariant embedding equations. In particular, we analyze the influence of surface-type…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Sanchez-Gil , V. Freilikher , A. A. Maradudin , I. Yurkevich

This paper extends current knowledge on electromagnetic wave scattering from bounded moving media in several regards. First, it complements the usual dispersion relation of moving media, $\omega(\theta_\mathbf{k})$ ($\theta_\mathbf{k}$:…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-04 Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Xuezhi Zheng , Christophe Caloz

Scattering at interluminal modulation interfaces, where a sharp space-time perturbation moves at a velocity lying between the wave velocities of the two surrounding media, has remained an open problem for decades. This regime is somewhat…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Zhiyu Li , Klaas De Kinder , Xikui Ma , Christophe Caloz

Causality creates an asymmetry between space and time, even though the wave equation treats them on equal footing. In this work, we leverage this asymmetry to construct a cross-mapping between space and time. This cross-mapping is applied…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-09 Mohamed A. Salem , Christophe Caloz

Wave propagation in complex media is a universal problem spanning optics, acoustics, mechanics, and condensed matter physics. While disorder usually causes strong scattering, recent theory predicts that a special class of correlated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 Angélique Campaniello , Rémi Carminati , Marcel Filoche , Emmanuel Fort

The latest breakthroughs in time-varying photonics are fueling novel thermal emission phenomena, for example, showing that the dynamic amplification of quantum vacuum fluctuations, induced by the time-modulation of material properties,…

We consider wave scattering from a system of highly contrasting resonators with time-modulated material parameters. In this setting, the wave equation reduces to a system of coupled Helmholtz equations that models the scattering problem. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

We study the effect of discrete symmetry breaking in inhomogeneous scattering media within the framework of generic wave propagation. Our focus is on one-dimensional scattering potentials exhibiting local symmetries. We find a class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 P. A. Kalozoumis , C. Morfonios , F. K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher

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…

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