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Polarized neutron reflectometry (PNR) has long been applied to measure the magnetic depth profile of thin films. In recent years, interest has increased in observing lateral magnetic structures in a film. While magnetic arrays patterned by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. -T. Lee , S. G. E. te Velthuis , G. P. Felcher , F. Klose , T. Gredig , D. Dahlberg , B. V. Toperverg

Periodic driving of particles can create crystalline structures in their dynamics. Such systems can be used to study solid-state physics phenomena in the time domain. In addition, it is possible to realize photonic time crystals and to…

Coherent thermal emission for a given polarization has been observed in many metamaterials with micro/nanostructures. A complete description of the thermal emission requires the full characterization of the spectral angular emissivity for…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-21 Chiyu Yang , Wenshan Cai , Zhuomin M. Zhang

Recently, there has been a revival of interest in mechanisms for changing the spin polarization of an electron beam on transmission through, or reflection from, a magnetic surface. An understanding of these mechanisms would allow the use of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 D. C. Hatton , J. A. C. Bland

Relativistic thermal electrons moving in a large-scale magnetic field can produce synchrotron radiation. Linear synchrotron polarization can also be produced by the relativistic thermal electrons. In this paper, we utilize a hybrid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Jirong Mao , Stefano Covino , Jiancheng Wang

An array of ring resonators specifically designed can perform as a topological insulator. We conduct simulations using both Tight-Binding Model (TBM) and Transfer Matrix Method (TMM) to analyze the transport properties of such optical…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-20 Xiaohui Jiang , Yujie Chen , Chenxuan Yin , Yanfeng Zhang , Hui Chen , Siyuan Yu

In this paper, we systematically calculate the polarization in soft X-rays emitted from magnetized neutron stars, which are expected to be observed by the next-generation X-ray satellites. Magnetars are one of the targets for these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Akihiro Yatabe , Shoichi Yamada

The Transfer Matrix Method is a powerful numerical tool for simulating wave propagation in layered media. It has been widely applied in many fields, although its use is typically restricted to passive media. In this paper, we develop the…

The ferromagnetic resonance frequencies are obtained for a thin ferromagnetic film with surface anisotropy for the cases when the external magnetic field is applied perpendicularly or parallel to the film surface, and for various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 N. A. Usov

Optical properties of a prismatic transparent plate and its effects on thermal radiation heat transfer are studied. A 3D ray-tracing numerical method is used to prove the bi-transmittance property of the prismatic sheet when it is exposed…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Afzal Raghavi

Inspired by non-Hermitian systems, we study reflection and transmission in a stack of thin films composed by the repetition of a bipartite unit cell. We aim for controlled reflection and transmission using lossless and lossy materials in…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-25 A. Padrón-Godínez , C. G. Treviño-Palacios

We show the possibility to entangle radiation modes through a simple reflection on a moving mirror. The model of an optical cavity having a movable end mirror, and supporting different modes is employed. The mechanical motion of the mirror…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Silvia Giannini , Stefano Mancini , Paolo Tombesi

We obtain a fluctuation--dissipation theorem describing thermal electromagnetic fluctuation effects in nonlinear media that we exploit in conjunction with a stochastic Langevin framework to study thermal radiation from Kerr ($\chi^{(3)}$)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-23 Chinmay Khandekar , Adi Pick , Steven G. Johnson , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

Here we develop a general theory of mode transformation (diffraction) at the flat transverse boundary between cold magnetized electron plasma and isotropic vacuum-like medium inside a circular waveguide. The obtained results can be also…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Sergey N. Galyamin

The structure of thin terminated Bi(1 1 1) films of approximately 1 nm thickness is investigated from first principles. Our density functional theory calculations show that covalent bonds to the surface can change the orientation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-16 Christian König , Stephen Fahy , James C. Greer

We show the existence of Fano resonances in the context of near-field radiative heat transfer, which enable the strong suppression and enhancement of the spectral heat flux at specific wavelengths. This is demonstrated by making use of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Jaime E Perez Rodriguez , Giuseppe Pirruccio , Raul Esquivel-Sirvent

Radiative heat transport between materials supporting surface-phonon polaritons is greatly enhanced when the materials are placed at sub-wavelength separation as a result of the contribution of near-field surface modes. However, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Ding Ding , Austin J. Minnich

We propose a parity-time symmetric dielectric-nanofilm-dielectric multilayered structure that could facilitate highly amplified transmission of optical power in the infrared spectrum. We have theoretically studied our model using the…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-06 Jyoti Prasad Deka , Amarendra K. Sarma

The thermal properties of a material with a spatio-temporal modulation in both the thermal conductivity and the mass density are studied. The special configuration studied here consists of a modulation in a wave-like fashion. It is found…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-28 Daniel Torrent , Olivier Poncelet , Jean-Chirstophe Batsale

Transfer matrix method is a well-known and extensively used tool to compute the reflection and transmission coefficients of electromagnetic waves when interacting with a system of layers parallel to each other. We present here a modified…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-14 Srinivas Ganganagunta