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Scattering of electromagnetic waves lies at the heart of most experimental techniques over nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from radio waves to optics and X-rays. Hence, deep insight into the basics of scattering theory…

Flat bands, in which kinetic energy is quenched and quantum states become macroscopically degenerate, host a rich variety of correlated and topological phases, from unconventional superconductors to fractional Chern insulators. In Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juričić

We introduce a new method for robust beamforming, where the goal is to estimate a signal from array samples when there is uncertainty in the angle of arrival. Our method offers state-of-the-art performance on narrowband signals and is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Nakul Singh , Coleman DeLude , Mark A. Davenport , Justin Romberg

Transmission through a subwavelength terahertz fiber, which is positioned in parallel to a frequency selective surface, is studied using several finite element tools. Both the band diagram technique and the port-based scattering matrix…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Martin Girard , Maksim Skorobogatiy

A kernel based procedure for correcting experimental data for distortions due to the finite resolution and limited detector acceptance is presented. The unfolding problem is known to be an ill-posed problem that can not be solved without…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-09-19 N. D. Gagunashvili , M. Schmelling

The topological mechanics is a perfect tool that can bridge the gap between the quantum and Newtonian physics and mechanics of materials. It requires discrete models of the material with analogies with the topological characteristics of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 Mohamed Shaat

This work investigates the quantum transport in a narrow constriction acted upon by a finite-range transversely polarized time-dependent electric field. A generalized scattering-matrix method is developed that has incorporated a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu

Spatial point patterns are a commonly recorded form of data in ecology, medicine, astronomy, criminology, epidemiology and many other application fields. One way to understand their second order dependence structure is via their spectral…

Applications · Statistics 2023-08-24 Jake P. Grainger , Tuomas A. Rajala , David J. Murrell , Sofia C. Olhede

The flat band system is an ideal quantum platform to investigate the kaleidoscope created by the electron-electron correlation effects. The central ingredient of realizing a flat band is to find its compact localized states. In this work,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-12 Yuge Chen , Juntao Huang , Kun Jiang , Jiangping Hu

Periodic photonic structures enable precise control over the light-matter interaction through band structure engineering. Certain lattice geometries exhibit dispersionless flat bands, characterized by vanishing group velocity and diverging…

We consider quantum scattering of particles in media exhibiting strong dispersion degeneracy. In particular, we study flat-banded lattices and linearly dispersed energy bands. The former constitute a prime example of single-particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-05 Manuel Valiente , Nikolaj Thomas Zinner

We develop a framework to describe a wide class of flat-band models, with and without a translational symmetry, by using "molecular orbitals" introduced in the prior work (HATSUGAI Y. and MARUYAMA I., \textit{EPL}, \textbf{95}, (2011)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Tomonari Mizoguchi , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

A theoretical investigation is made of the dispersion characteristics of plasmons in a two-dimensional periodic system of semiconductor (dielectric) cylinders embedded in a dielectric (semiconductor) background. We consider both square and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Manvir S. Kushwaha

Inspired by [25], this paper investigates subwavelength bandgaps in phononic crystals consisting of periodically arranged hard elastic materials embedded in a soft elastic background medium. Our contributions are threefold. First, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Yuanchun Ren , Bochao Chen , Yixian Gao , Peijun Li

A popular absorbing structure, often referred to as Perfect Metamaterial Absorber, comprising metallic periodic pattern over a thin low-loss grounded substrate is studied by resorting to an efficient transmission line model. This approach…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Filippo Costa , Simone Genovesi , Agostino Monorchio , Giuliano Manara

Multilayer networks offer a powerful framework for modeling complex systems across diverse domains, effectively capturing multiple types of connections and interdependent subsystems commonly found in real world scenarios. To analyze these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Martin Guillemaud , Vera Dinkelacker , Mario Chavez

Modern bandgap engineered electronic devices are typically made of multi-semiconductor multi-layer heterostructures that pose a major challenge to silicon-era characterization methods. As a result, contemporary bandgap engineering relies…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-18 Yury Turkulets , Ilan Shalish

Hyperuniform disorder is a type of correlated disorder characterized by vanishing spectral density at small wavevectors, making the configuration effectively homogeneous on long length scales. In photonics, hyperuniform disorder is…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-05 Zeyu Zhang , Koorosh Sadri , Brian Gould , Mikael Rechtsman

This manuscript puts forward and verifies an analytical approach to design phononic crystals that feature a bandgap at the lowest possible frequencies. This new approach is verified against numerical optimization. It rests on the exact form…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Javier González-Carbajal , Marius Lemm , Joaquin Garcia-Suarez

In this article, we introduce the notion of Quaternion Boostlet Transform (QBT), a hypercomplex framework designed to unify the analysis of multi-component wavefields by merging the algebraic richness of quaternions with the relativistic,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Owais Ahmad , Jasifa Fayaz