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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

Describing the phenomenon of total internal reflection in terms of a reflection coefficient of unit magnitude, we found that, not only can propagating plane waves be total internally reflected at the planar interface of two dissimilar,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Tom G. Mackay

We study the band structure and scattering of in-plane coupled longitudinal and shear stress waves in linear layered media and observe that exceptional points (EP) appear for elastic (lossless) media, when parameterized with real-valued…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Vahidreza Alizadeh , Alireza V. Amirkhizi

The extended boundary condition method can be formulated to study plane-wave scattering by an ellipsoid composed of an orthorhombic dielectric-magnetic material whose relative permittivity dyadic is a scalar multiple of its relative…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-22 H. M. Alkhoori , A. Lakhtakia , J. K. Breakall , C. F. Bohren

A general algorithm for calculating the reflection and refraction of nonuniform plane waves from an arbitrarily oriented and charged planar interface between two lossy isotropic media is proposed based on the decomposition of the complex…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Zhili Lin

We derive the invariant imbedding equations for plane electromagnetic waves propagating in stratified magnetic media, where both dielectric and magnetic permeabilities vary in one spatial direction in an arbitrary manner. These equations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kihong Kim , H. Lim , Dong-Hun Lee

We study the spectral linear elasticity problem in an unbounded periodic waveguide, which consists of a sequence of identical bounded cells connected by thin ligaments of diameter of order $ h >0$. The essential spectrum of the problem is…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-13 F. L. Bakharev , J. Taskinen

Inspired by the problem of elastic wave scattering on wrinkled interfaces, we studied the scattering of ballistic electrons on a wrinkled potential energy region. The electron transmission coefficient depends on both wrinkle amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 T. L. Mitran , G. A. Nemnes , L. Ion , Daniela Dragoman

We consider a model for a one-dimensional photonic crystal formed by a succession of Kerr-type equidistant spaceless interfaces immersed in a linear medium. We calculate the band structure and reflectance of this structure as a function of…

In this article we discuss the modelling of elastic and electromagnetic wave propagation through one- and two-dimensional structured piezoelectric solids. Dispersion and the effect of piezoelectricity on the group velocity and positions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-25 Domenico Tallarico , Natalia V. Movchan , Alexander B. Movchan , Michele Camposaragna

We study the isotropic elastic wave equation in a bounded domain with boundary with coefficients having jumps at a nested set of interfaces satisfying the natural transmission conditions there. We analyze in detail the microlocal behavior…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Plamen Stefanov , Gunther Uhlmann , Andras Vasy

We report that normal incidence reflection and transmission of circularly polarized electromagnetic waves from and through planar split-ring metamaterials with chiral symmetry breaking depends on the incidence direction and handedness of…

Optics · Physics 2009-03-31 E. Plum , V. A. Fedotov , N. I. Zheludev

A linear scattering problem for which incoming and outgoing waves are restricted to a finite number of radiation channels can be precisely described by a frequency-dependent scattering matrix. The entries of the scattering matrix, as…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Hongyao Wu , Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

When a plane electromagnetic wave impinges upon a diffraction grating or other periodic structures, reflected and transmitted waves propagate away from the structure in different radiation channels. A diffraction anomaly occurs when the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Zitao Mai , Ya Yan Lu

This paper is concerned with the diffraction of an electromagnetic wave by a perfectly conducting half-plane in a homogeneous bi-isotropic medium (asymptotically). Similar analysis in a source-free field is done in Asghar,S. and Lakhtakia,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wasiq Hussain

Non-uniform metasurfaces (electrically thin composite layers) can be used for shaping refracted and reflected electromagnetic waves. However, known design approaches based on the generalized refraction and reflection laws do not allow…

An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

We consider scattering waves through truncated periodic potentials with perturbations that support localized gap eigenstates. In a small complex neighborhood around an assumed positive bound state of the model operator, we prove the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Joseph C. Stellman , Jeremy L. Marzuola

We study the backward scatterings of plane waves by reciprocal scatterers and reveal that $n$-fold ($n\geq3$) rotation symmetry is sufficient to secure invariant backscattering for arbitrarily-polarized incident plane waves. It is further…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-27 Weijin Chen , Qingdong Yang , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

In the context of elastic wave propagation in damaged solids, an analytical approach for scattering of antiplane waves by two-dimensional periodic arrays of cracks is developed. Before considering the study of arrays of cracks, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-07 Mihai Caleap