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In this letter we describe a new and simple approach for modulating the electromagnetic wave propagating in a dielectric medium in the form of solitons by considering the torque developed between the induced dipoles in the medium and…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Veerakumar , M. Daniel

In this work, we introduce a novel Hermite method to handle Maxwell's equations for nonlinear dispersive media. The proposed method achieves high-order accuracy and is free of any nonlinear algebraic solver, requiring solving instead small…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Yann-Meing Law , Zhichao Peng , Daniel Appelö , Thomas Hagstrom

We present an analytical description of the nonlocal optical response of plasmonic nanowire metamaterials that enable negative refraction, subwavelength light manipulation, and emission lifetime engineering. We show that dispersion of…

Optics · Physics 2014-01-13 Brian M. Wells , Anatoly V. Zayats , Viktor A. Podolskiy

The applied method of slowly varying amplitudes of the electrical and magnet vector fields give us the possibility to reduce the nonlinear vector integro-differential wave equation to the amplitude vector nonlinear differential equations.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Lubomir M. Kovachev

We show that new families of accelerating and almost nondiffracting beams (solutions) for Maxwell's equations can be constructed. These are complex geometrical optics (CGO) solutions to Maxwell's equations with nonlinear limiting Carleman…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Ru-Yu Lai , Ting Zhou

We describe a fourth-order accurate finite-difference time-domain scheme for solving dispersive Maxwell's equations with nonlinear multi-level carrier kinetics models. The scheme is based on an efficient single-step three time-level…

By using a powerful reductive perturbation technique, or a multiscale analysis, a generic Kadomtsev-Petviashvili evolution equation governing the propagation of femtosecond spatiotemporal optical solitons in quadratic nonlinear media beyond…

Optics · Physics 2011-04-25 Hervé Leblond , David Kremer , Dumitru Mihalache

B.A. Dubrovin proved that remarkable WDVV associativity equations are integrable systems. In a simplest nontrivial three-component case these equations can be written as a nondiagonalizable hydrodynamic type system equivalent to a symmetric…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-04-23 Maxim V. Pavlov , Nikola M. Stoilov

We study the linear phenomenological Maxwell's equations in the presence of a polarizable and magnetizable medium (magnetodielectric). For a dispersive, non-absorptive, medium with equal electric and magnetic permeabilities, the latter can…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 B. Gralak , A. Tip

Maxwell's equations resemble Schr\"odinger's equation in that an exact solution for a well-defined model delivers all physically relevant details. Solvable microscopic electrodynamic models, however, are rare. An exception is the discrete…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Richard Dengler

Geometrical optics provides an instructive insight into Brownian motion, ``pushed" into a large-deviations regime by imposed constraints. Here we extend geometrical optics of Brownian motion by accounting for diffusion inhomogeneity in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-26 Tal Bar , Baruch Meerson

Nonlinear optical responses are becoming increasingly relevant for characterizing the symmetries and quantum geometry of electronic phases in materials. Here, we develop an expanded diagrammatic scheme for calculating spatially dispersive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Steven Gassner , Eugene J. Mele

The diffraction of a plane wave by a transversely inhomogeneous isotropic nonmagnetic linearly polarized dielectric layer filled with a Kerr-type nonlinear medium is considered. The analytical and numerical solution techniques are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-13 Yury Shestopalov , Vasil Yatsyk

We investigate the dispersionless Veselov-Novikov (dVN) equation based on the framework of dispersionless two-component BKP hierarchy. Symmetry constraints for real dVN system are considered. It is shown that under symmetry reductions, the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 Jen-Hsu Chang , Yu-Tung Chen

We review the integrable systems which arise as symmetry reductions of Plebanski's heavenly equations, and their generalisations. We also show that all four-dimensional null Kahler-Einstein (or type N hyper-heavenly) metrics with symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Maciej Dunajski , Maciej Przanowski

This paper is devoted to the study of some nonlinear parabolic equations with discontinuous diffusion intensities. Such problems appear naturally in physical and biological models. Our analysis is based on variational techniques and in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-09 Dohyun Kwon , Alpár Richárd Mészáros

Formulas for transverse conductance and dielectric permeability in quantum non-degenerate and Maxwellian collisional plasma with arbitrary variable collision frequency in Mermin's approach are deduced. Frequency of collisions of particles…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

We derive the spectral dependence of the non-linear susceptibility of any order, generalizing the common form of Sellmeier equations. This dependence is fully defined by the knowledge of the linear dispersion of the medium. This finding…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-09 W. Ettoumi , Y. Petit , J. Kasparian , J. -P. Wolf

By considering the inhomogeneities of media, a generalized variable-coefficient Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (vc-KP) equation is investigated, which can be used to describe many nonlinear phenomena in fluid dynamics and plasma physics. In this…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-03 Shou-Fu Tian , Hong-Qing Zhang

A numerical technique is described that can efficiently compute solutions in interface problems. These are problems with data, such as the coefficients of differential equations, discontinuous or even singular across one or more interfaces.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Theodoros P. Horikis