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We compute electromagnetic wave propagation through the magnetosphere of a magnetar. The magnetosphere is modeled as the QED vacuum and a cold, strongly magnetized plasma. The background field and electromagnetic waves are treated…

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The arrival time of electromagnetic signals traveling in chiral cosmic media is investigated in the context of Maxwell-Carroll-Field-Jackiw electrodynamics. Considering the interstellar medium (ISM) as a cold, ionized, chiral plasma, we…

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Due to the inhomogeneous polarisation across the beam profile, cylindrical vector beams interact with optically active media in a complex manner. Here, we analyse evolution of polarisation of cylindrical vector beams propagating in an…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Yuanyang Xie , Alexey Krasavin , Anatoly V. Zayats , Andrei Afanasev

Recent observations suggest that there are violations of the isotropy of the universe at large scales, an important part of the cosmological principle. In this paper, we use the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data to search for spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Shek Yeung , Ming-Chung Chu

We numerically and analytically investigate the voltage controlled spin wave (SW) propagations in a nanowire with locally manipulated perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) by applying an electric field. It is shown that the velocity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 June-Seo Kim , Sanghoon Jung , Myung-Hwa Jung , Chun-Yeol You , Henk J. M. Swagten , Bert Koopmans

We study the propagation of one-dimentional optical beams in a weakly nonlocal medium exhibiting cubic-quintic nonlinearity. A nonlinear equation governing the evolution of the beam intensity in the nonlocal medium is derived thereby which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-10 Houria Triki , Vladimir I. Kruglov

The phase velocity of light is co-parallel to the direction of energy flow in classical vacuum. However, in certain uncommon materials, these two vectors can be oppositely directed, in which case the phase velocity is termed `negative'.…

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

We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a chiral fluid, where the molecules are described by a simplified version of the Kuhn coupled oscillator model. The eigenmodes of Maxwell's equations are circularly polarized waves. The…

Physics Education · Physics 2008-03-05 T. Garel

A differential phase shift of a low-power spin wave (SW) induced by a high-power pumping wave co-propagating at different frequencies in perpendicularly magnetized magnetic films has been studied. We find that this effect for forward volume…

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A numerical investigation was undertaken to elucidate the propagation of electromagnetic surface waves guided by the planar interface of two temperature-sensitive materials. One partnering material was chosen to be isotropic and the other…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-05 Tom G. Mackay , Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Scattering from a non-smooth random field on the time domain is studied for plane waves that propagate simultaneously through the potential in variable angles. We first derive sufficient conditions for stochastic moments of the field to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Pedro Caro , Tapio Helin , Antti Kujanpää , Matti Lassas

The scattering and transformation of the waves propagating in magnetized plasma on a heavy stationary charged particle located at a plane plasma-vacuum boundary is considered. The scattering (transformation) occurs due to the nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hrachya B. Nersisyan

Cosmic rays (CRs) have critical impacts in the multiphase interstellar medium (ISM), driving dynamical motions in low-density plasma and modifying the ionization state, temperature, and chemical composition of higher-density atomic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Christopher J. Bambic , Xue-Ning Bai , Eve C. Ostriker

In certain circumstances, chiral (parity-violating) medium can be described hydrodynamically as a chiral fluid with microscopic quantum anomalies. Possible examples of such systems include strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma, liquid helium…

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We present 3-D MHD and synthetic numerical simulations to follow the evolution of randomly magnetized intra-cluster medium plasma under the effects of powerful, light, hypersonic and bipolar jets. We prescribe the cluster magnetic field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-07 Martín Huarte-Espinosa , Martin Krause , Paul Alexander

The chiral magnetic wave (CMW) has been theorized to propagate in the Quark-Gluon Plasma formed in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. It could cause a finite electric quadrupole moment of the collision system, and may be observed as a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-05-30 Qi-Ye Shou

The effect of temporal modulation on traveling waves in the flows in two distinct systems of rotating cylinders, both with broken azimuthal symmetry, has been investigated. It is shown that by modulating the control parameter at twice the…

Recent experiments have demonstrated that it is possible to alter the dispersion of a medium without significantly altering its absorption or refractive index and that this may be done while a wave propagates through the medium. This…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-10 Douglas H. Bradshaw , Michael D. Di Rosa

It is pointed out that electrostatic and electromagnetic waves propagating in perpendicular direction to the density gradient $\nabla n_0=\hat{x} |\frac{dn_0}{dx}|$ and external magnetic field $\vec{B}_0=B_0 \hat{z}$ in hybrid frequency…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Hamid Saleem , Usman Saeed

An instantaneous time mirror (ITM) is an interesting approach to manipulate wave propagation from the time boundaries. In the time domain, the reversed wave is previously proven to be the temporal derivative of the original pattern. Here,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Danming Peng , Yiyang Fan , Ruochen Liu , Xiasheng Guo , Sihui Wang
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