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We report the first experiential observation and theoretical analysis of the new phenomenon of planar chiral circular conversion dichroism, which in some aspects resembles the Faraday effect in magnetized media, but does not require the…

It is proved that elliptically-polarized finite-amplitude inhomogeneous plane waves may not propagate in an isotropic elastic material subject to the constraint of incompressibility. The waves considered are harmonic in time and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-04 Michel Destrade

We consider a relativistic plasma containing charged chiral fermions in an external magnetic field, e.g a chirally symmetric quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We show that triangle anomalies imply the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-22 Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Ho-Ung Yee

Three explicit approximate expressions for the effective conductivity sigma_e of various planar isotropic two-phase systems in a magnetic field are obtained using the dual linear fractional transformation, connecting sigma_e of these…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Bulgadaev , F. V. Kusmartsev

Propagation of gravitational and acoustic plane waves in a flat universe filled with a general relativistic, homogeneous and isotropic, spatially flat continuum is studied. The continuum is described by analogues of nonrelativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Vratko Polák , Vladimír Balek

The role of cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation data in constraining the presence of primordial isocurvature modes is examined. While the MAP satellite mission will be unable to simultaneously constrain isocurvature modes and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M Bucher , K Moodley , N Turok

Using the conventional approach of superposing plane waves, it is not possible to create a strictly isotropic turbulent magnetic field structure that obeys all physical constraints, which are (i) equal mean of all magnetic field components;…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 R. C. Tautz

The Chiral Magnetic Wave (CMW) [1] predicts a dependence of the positive and negative particle elliptic flow on the event charge asymmetry. Such a dependence has been observed by the STAR Collaboration [2]. However, it is rather difficult…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Sergei A. Voloshin , Ronald Belmont

The polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is rich in information but obscured by foreground emission from the Milky Way's interstellar medium (ISM). To uncover relationships between the underlying turbulent ISM and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-11 Kye A. Stalpes , David C. Collins , Kevin M. Huffenberger

By employing a self-similar, two-fluid MHD model in a cylindrical geometry, we study the features of nonlinear ion-acoustic (IA) waves which propagate in the direction of external magnetic field lines in space plasmas. Numerical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 John Z. G. Ma

Electron and ion-cyclotron waves are well known to exist in solar system plasmas but their existence and importance in galaxy clusters is an open question. Guided by numerical simulations, (Ley et al. (2024)) argued that whistlers…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Petr Ugarov , Francisco Ley , Ellen Zweibel

Bi-isotropic media, which include isotropic chiral media and Tellegen media as special cases, are the most general form of linear isotropic media where the electric displacement and the magnetic induction are related to both the electric…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-04 Seulong Kim , Kihong Kim

The diffraction of electromagnetic plane waves by a rectangular grating formed by discrete steps in the interface of a homogeneous, isotropic, linear, negative phase--velocity (negative index) material with free space is studied using the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ricardo A. Depine , Akhlesh Lakhtakia , David R. Smith

A collisionless shock wave is treated as a streaming plasma instability in the interstellar medium (ISM). We assume that in a steady state, this instability propagates through the ISM as a self-driven plasma instability, whereby the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-30 Vladimir Zekovic , Bojan Arbutina

We investigate the reflection and refraction behaviors of electromagnetic waves at the interface between an isotropic material and the anisotropic medium with a unique dispersion relation. We show that the refraction angle of whether phase…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Weixing Shu , Hailu Luo , Fei Li , Zhongzhou Ren

Magnetoelectric materials have the interesting property of exhibiting polarization induced by a magnetic field or magnetization induced by an electric field. As a consequence, a multitude of effects can be produced by means of controllable…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Vitorio A. De Lorenci

Surface waves, named here as Dyakonov-Tamm waves, can exist at the planar interface of an isotropic dielectric material and a chiral sculptured thin film (STF). Due to the periodic nonhomogeneity of a chiral STF, the range of the refractive…

Optics · Physics 2007-07-24 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , John A. Polo

The problem of determining the effective conductivity tensor of a magnetoactive turbulent plasma is considered in the approximation of isolated particles. Additional gyrotropicterms are shown to appear in the conductivity tensor in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Otto G. Chkhetiani

When a solid body floats at the interface of a vibrating liquid bath, the relative motion between the object and interface generates outwardly propagating surface waves. It has recently been demonstrated that millimetric objects with…

Rayleigh waves are considered for crystals possessing at least one plane of symmetry. The secular equation is established explicitly for surface waves propagating in any direction of the plane of symmetry, using two different methods. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-17 Michel Destrade