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We study the problem of a temporal discontinuity in the permittivity of an unbounded medium with Lorentzian dispersion. More specifically, we tackle the situation in which a monochromatic plane wave forward-travelling in a (generally lossy)…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Diego M. Solís , Raphael Kastner , Nader Engheta

A quantum-mechanical analysis of hyper-fast (faster than ballistic) diffusion of a quantum wave packet in random optical lattices is presented. The main motivation of the presented analysis is experimental demonstrations of hyper-diffusive…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-25 Alexander Iomin

We consider a carpet of self-propelled particles at the liquid-gas interface of a liquid film on a solid substrate. The particles excert an excess pressure on the interface and also move along the interface while the swimming direction…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrey Pototsky , Uwe Thiele , Holger Stark

The current paper is devoted to the investigation of wave propagation phenomenon in reaction-diffusion equations with ignition type nonlinearity in time heterogeneous and random media. It is proven that such equations in time heterogeneous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-22 Wenxian Shen , Zhongwei Shen

Wave propagation in one-dimensional heterogeneous bistable media is studied using the Schl\"ogl model as a representative example. Starting from the analytically known traveling wave solution for the homogeneous medium, infinitely extended,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-19 Jakob Löber , Markus Bär , Harald Engel

The applied method of the amplitude envelopes give us the possibility to describe a new class of amplitude equations governing the propagation of optical pulses in media with dispersion, dispersionless media and vacuum. We normalized these…

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

This review article examines the complex dynamics of thin-film flows of granular suspensions spreading over rigid solid substrates with free air interfaces. Such systems feature an involved coupling of the free-surface dynamics with the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-14 Alice Pelosse , Elisabeth Guazzelli , Matthieu Roché

The propagation of the solitary waves in the Bragg grating formed by array of thin dielectric films is considered. We assume that the thin films of contain the resonant molecules, which are evolved according to two-level atoms model, which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei I. Maimistov

Extremely anisotropic metal-dielectric multilayer metamaterials are designed to have the effective permittivity tensor of a transverse component (parallel to the interfaces of the multilayer) with zero real part and a longitudinal component…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Lei Sun , Xiaodong Yang , Wei Wang , Jie Gao

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

In two space dimensions and one time dimension a wave changes its shape even in the absence of a dispersive medium. However, this anomalous dispersive behavior in empty two-dimensional space does not occur if the wave dynamics is described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-20 Carl M. Bender , Francisco J. Rodriguez , Sarben Sarkar , Anatoly V. Zayats

The depth dependence of crystalline structure within thin films is critical for many technological applications, but has been impossible to measure directly using common techniques. In this work, by monitoring diffraction peak intensity and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 Eliot Gann , Mario Caironi , Yong-Young Noh , Yun-Hi Kim , Christopher R. McNeill

We theoretically investigate the dispersion and polarization properties of the electromagnetic waves in a multi-layered structure composed of a magneto-optic waveguide on dielectric substrate covered by one-dimensional dielectric photonic…

Light can be confined transversely and delivered axially in a waveguide. However, waveguides are lossy static structures whose modal characteristics are fundamentally determined by the boundary conditions, and thus cannot be readily changed…

The energy propagation of electromagnetic fields in the effective medium of a one-dimensional photonic crystal consisting of dielectric and metallic layers is investigated. We show that the medium behaves like Drude and Lorentz medium,…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-16 Pi-Gang Luan , Jie-Luen Wu

We use a scattering matrix approach to simulate the transmission through a hexagonal Photonic Crystal in the vicinity of the Dirac point. If the crystal is oriented so that the propagation direction perpendicular to the surface corresponds…

Optics · Physics 2008-07-23 Marcus Diem , Thomas Koschny , C. M. Soukoulis

A quantum theory of dispersion for an inhomogeneous solid is obtained, from a starting point of multipolar coupled atoms interacting with an electromagnetic field. The dispersion relations obtained are equivalent to the standard classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. D. Drummond , M. Hillery

As is well known, the sound-speed profile has significant effects on underwater acoustic sound propagation. These effects can be quantified by normal-mode models, for example. The basic case is a laterally homogeneous medium, for which the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Sven Ivansson

Refraction at the interface between two materials is fundamental to the interaction of light with photonic devices and to the propagation of light through the atmosphere at large. Underpinning the traditional rules for the refraction of an…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-02 Basanta Bhaduri , Murat Yessenov , Ayman F. Abouraddy

We discuss the propagation of electromagnetic waves on a rectangular lattice of polarizable point dipoles. For wavelengths long compared to the lattice spacing, we obtain the dispersion relation in terms of the lattice spacing and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gutkowicz-Krusin , B. T. Draine