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We show that for an observer in translational, rotational or gravitational motion, a linearly polarized plane wave has two modes of propagation in a stationary, homogeneous and isotropic medium according to Hertz's version of Maxwell's…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. A. Adewole

Elastic waves guided along bars of rectangular cross section exhibit complex dispersion. This paper studies in-plane modes propagating at low frequencies in thin isotropic rectangular waveguides through experiments and numerical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Jérôme Laurent , Daniel Royer , Claire Prada

In this work, we study the propagation and absorption of plasma waves in the chiral Maxwell-Carroll-Field-Jackiw (MCJF) electrodynamics. The Maxwell equations are rewritten for a cold, uniform, and collisionless fluid plasma model, allowing…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Filipe S. Ribeiro , Pedro D. S. Silva , Manoel M. Ferreira

We report on a strategy for achieving negative phase velocity (NPV) in a homogenized composite medium (HCM) conceptualized using the Bruggeman formalism. The constituent material phases of the HCM do not support NPV propagation. The HCM and…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

We investigate how the quantum friction experienced by a polarizable atom moving with constant velocity parallel to a planar interface is modified when the latter consists of chiral or nonreciprocal media, with special focus on topological…

By viewing plasmon waves in metallic waveguides as propagating electric and magnetic dipoles we show that according to laws of quantum mechanics they will acquire additional phase when propagating through space with static magnetic field.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-29 V. Savinov , N. I. Zheludev

A condition, at which the one-dimensional inverse power potential becomes reflectionless during propagation through it of a plane wave, is obtained on the basis of SUSY QM methods. A scattering of a particle on spherically symmetric inverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei P. Maydanyuk

This paper reviews the application of a novel methodology for analysing the isotropy of the universe by probing the alignment of local structures in the CMB. The strength of the proposed methodology relies on the steerable wavelet filtering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Vielva , Y. Wiaux , E. Martinez-Gonzalez , P. Vandergheynst

Electromagnetic energy backflow is a phenomenon occurring in regions where the direction of the Poynting vector is opposite to that of the propagation of the wave field. It is particularly remarkable in the nonparaxial regime and has been…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-14 Peeter Saari , Ioannis Besieris

Exact plane gravitational radiation fields are presented within the framework of general relativity and their properties are described. The physics of nonlinear elliptically polarized plane gravitational waves is developed in close analogy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Masoud Molaei , Shant Baghram , Bahram Mashhoon

Two numerical studies, one based on a canonical boundary-value problem and the other based on a reflection-transmission problem, revealed that the propagation of high-phase-speed Dyakonov-Tamm (HPSDT) surface waves may be supported by the…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

The propagation of a wave in a medium is generally affected when the medium is moving with respect to the observer. Because plasma equilibria often involve plasma flows, for instance in astrophysics or in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Aymeric Braud , Julien Langlois , Renaud Gueroult

Using an anomalous transport model for massless quarks and antiquarks, we study the effect of a magnetic field on the elliptic flows of quarks and antiquarks in relativistic heavy ion collisions. With initial conditions from a blast wave…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-10-19 Yifeng Sun , Che-Ming Ko , Feng Li

Wave propagation inside generalized gyrotropic media is considered in the present Letter. It is shown that in this type of materials, the left- and right- handed circularly polarized light can be coupled to each other, which may possess…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Qi Shen

Photonic structures and time-crystals, wherein time is incorporated as an additional degree of freedom for light manipulation, have necessitated the development of analytical and semi-analytical tools. However, such tools are currently…

The high-frequency part of spectrum of electromagnetic waves propagating parallel to the external magnetic field is considered for the macroscopically motionless plasmas with the relativistic temperatures $T\sim m_{e}c^{2}$, where $m_{e}$…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Pavel A. Andreev

By producing localized wave regions at the ends of an open-field-line magnetic confinement system, ponderomotive walls can be used to differentially confine different species in the plasma. Furthermore, if the plasma is rotating, this wall…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Ian E. Ochs , Nathaniel J. Fisch

The radiation from a charged particle-in-flight from a semi-infinite laminated medium to vacuum and back,- from vacuum to the laminated medium, has been investigated. Expressions for the spectral-angular distribution of radiation energy in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-10 L. Sh. Grigoryan , A. R. Mkrtchyan , H. F. Khachatryan , S. R. Arzumanyan , W. Wagner

Plane electromagnetic and gravitational waves interact with particles in such a way as to cause them to oscillate not only in the transverse direction but also along the direction of propagation. The electromagnetic case is usually shown by…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gerald E. Marsh

Bi-isotropic media constitute a proper scenario for scrutinizing optical effects stemming from magnetoelectric parameters. Chiral magnetic current is a macroscopic effect arising from the chiral magnetic effect that enriches the…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-28 Pedro D. S. Silva , Manoel M. Ferreira
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