An analytical theory of electromagnetic waves in artificial media formed by a rectangular lattice of thin ideally conducting cylinders using the local field approach is developed. As a result, the transcendental dispersion equation is obtained in closed form and solved numerically. Typical dispersion curves are calculated. Using these results, the reflection problem from an interface between a ...

We compute the electromagnetic mass differences of mesons containing a single heavy quark in terms of measurable data using QCD-based arguments in heavy-quark effective theory. We derive an unsubtracted dispersion relation that shows that the mass differences are calculable in terms of the properties of the lowest-lying physical intermediate states. We then consider the problem in the largeN li...

The premetric approach to electrodynamics provides a unified description of a wide class of electromagnetic phenomena. In particular, it involves axion, dilaton and skewon modifications of the classical electrodynamics. This formalism emerges also when the non-minimal coupling between the electromagnetic tensor and the torsion of Einstein-Cartan gravity is considered. Moreover, the premetric fo...

The specific features of TE-wave propagation in a structure fabricated by periodic alternating ferrite and semiconductor layers are investigated. Dispersion characteristics of eigenwaves are calculated. The transmission spectra of an electromagnetic wave oblique incident from the uniform medium onto the multilayer periodic ferrite-semiconductor structure is considered. The features of transmiss...

We present a transformation optics approach for molding the light flow at the deep-subwavelength scale, using metamaterials with uniquely designed dispersion. By conformal transformation of the electromagnetic space, we develop a methodology for realizing subwavelength ray optics with curved ray trajectories. This enables deep-subwavelength-scale beams to flow through two- or three-dimensional ...

Nonlinear dispersive wave equations arise naturally in scientific and engineering fields such as fluid dynamics, electromagnetic theory, quantum mechanics, optical communication, nonlinear optics etc. Many important questions (both in theory and applications) are related to the interaction of two effects: energy spreading (dispersion, diffraction) and energy concentrating (nonlinear self-trappi...

We consider the existence of plasmons in a nonequilibrium situation where electrons from the valence band of graphene are pumped to states in the Brillouin zone around the M point by a high intensity UV electromagnetic field. The resulting out-of-equilibrium electron gas is later probed by a weak electromagnetic field of different frequency. We show that the optical properties of the system and...

These lectures give an introduction to the structure of the nucleon as seen with the electromagnetic probe. Particular emphasis is put on the form factors, the strangeness content, Compton scattering and polarizabilities, pion photoand electroproduction, the spin structure and sum rules. The existing data are compared to predictions obtained from chiral perturbation theory, dispersion theory an...

Results of design and simulation of a 0.2 THz traveling-wave-tube vacuum power amplifier with a sheet electron beam and grating slow-wave structure (SWS) are presented. Electromagnetic properties of the SWS such as dispersion and interaction impedance are calculated. Smallsignal and large signal gain curves are studied.

These lectures give an introduction to the structure of the nucleon as seen with the electromagnetic probe. Particular emphasis is put on the form factors, the strangeness content, Compton scattering and polarizabilities, pion photo-and elec-troproduction, the spin structure and sum rules. The existing data are compared to predictions obtained from chiral perturbation theory, dispersion theory ...