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The process of anomalous transfer of interstitial atoms during impact deformation of the crystal surface is described theoretically. As shown that surface impact leads to the formation of a wave of inhomogeneous atomic displacements in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-12 A. I. Karasevskii , A. Yu. Naumuk

The collision of a plane parallel shock wave with a plane parallel cloud of uniform density is analysed for the case in which magnetic fields and radiative losses are not considered. General analytic solutions are discussed for the case in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mendoza

Tidal and tidal-resonant effects in coalescing compact binary systems are investigated by direct numerical integration of the equations of motion. For the stars polytropic models are used. The tidal effects are found to be dominated by the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Kostas D. Kokkotas , Gerhard Schaefer

The propagation of Dyakonov surface waves (DSWs) at the planar interface between an isotropic material and a linear electro-optic birefringent material can be dynamically controlled using the Pockels effect. The range of directions for DSW…

Optics · Physics 2008-05-01 S. R. Nelatury , J. A. Polo , A. Lakhtakia

Characterizing electromagnetic wave propagation in nonlinear and inhomogeneous media is of great interest from both theoretical and practical perspectives, even though it is extremely complicated. In fact, it is still an unresolved issue to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-28 Liang Hu , Xiao Zhang , Dazhi Zhao , MaoKang Luo

The Doppler shift is investigated in one-dimensional system with moving source. Theoretical findings are confirmed in numerical simulations of optical and acoustical waves propagation in simple metamaterial model, showing the reversed shift…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 David Ziemkiewicz , Sylwia Zielińska-Raczyńska

Asymmetric transmission of circularly polarized waves is a well-established property of lossy, anisotropic, two-dimensionally chiral patterns. Here we show that asymmetric transmission can be observed for oblique incidence onto any lossy…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-18 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

Three (2+1)-dimensional equations, they are KP equation, cylindrical KP equation and spherical KP equation, have been reduced to the same KdV equation by different transformation of variables respectively. Since the single solitary wave…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-01-24 Xiang-Zheng Li , Jin-Liang Zhang , Ming-Liang Wang

The polar wavelet transform (PWT) has been proven to be a powerful mathematical tool for signal and image processing in recent years. Due to the increasing demand for directional representations of signals in engineering, it is impossible…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Hui Zhao , Bing-Zhao Li

We predict a complete TM-TE transformation of the polarization of terahertz electromagnetic waves reflected from a strongly anisotropic boundary of a layered superconductor. We consider the case when the wave is incident on the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-19 Yu. O. Averkov , V. M. Yakovenko , V. A. Yampol'skii , Franco Nori

Particles such as microplastics and phytoplankton suspended in the water column in the natural environment are often subject to the action of surface gravity waves. By modelling such anisotropic particles as small spheroids that slowly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-03 Nimish Pujara , Jean-Luc Thiffeault

The geometric optics approximation traditionally used to study the propagation of gravitational waves on a curved background, breaks down in the vicinity of compact and extended astrophysical objects, where wave-like effects like diffusion…

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We theoretically investigate the solitary waves and their switching dynamics in a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric directional fiber coupler, exhibiting Kerr nonlinearity, by developing a variational analysis. We analyze the fundamental switching…

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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marko Nedeljkov

In order to investigate corrections to the common KdV approximation for surface water waves in a canal, we derive modulation equations for the evolution of long wavelength initial data. We work in Lagrangian coordinates. The equations which…

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In this paper we explore generalizations of metric structures of the gravitational wave type to geometries containing an independent connection. The aim is simply to establish a new category of connections compatible, according to some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Alejandro Jiménez-Cano

In this paper we perform the exact diagonalization of a light-matter strongly coupled system taking into account arbitrary losses via both energy dissipation in the optically active material and photon escape out of the resonator. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 Erika Cortese , Simone De Liberato

We consider bosonic atoms that rotate in an anharmonic trapping potential. Using numerical diagonalization of the Hamiltonian, we identify the various phases of the gas as the rotational frequency of the trap and the coupling between the…

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