Pseudounitary Floquet scattering matrix for wave-front shaping in time-periodic photonic media

D Globosits, J Hüpfl, S Rotter - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The physics of waves in time-varying media provides numerous opportunities for wave
control that are unattainable with static media. In particular, Floquet systems with a periodic …

Full transmission of vectorial waves through 3D multiple-scattering media

HC Lin, C Wei Hsu - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A striking prediction from the random matrix theory (RMT) in mesoscopic physics is the
existence of “open channels”: waves that use multipath interference to achieve perfect …

Wave-momentum shaping for moving objects in heterogeneous and dynamic media

B Orazbayev, M Malléjac, N Bachelard, S Rotter… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Light and sound waves can move objects through the transfer of linear or angular
momentum, which has led to the development of optical and acoustic tweezers, with …

Continuity equation for the flow of Fisher information in wave scattering

J Hüpfl, F Russo, LM Rachbauer, D Bouchet, J Lu… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Using waves to explore our environment is a widely used paradigm, ranging from
seismology to radar technology, and from biomedical imaging to precision measurements. In …

Radiation forces and torques in optics and acoustics

I Toftul, S Golat, FJ Rodríguez-Fortuño, F Nori… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Mechanical action of various kinds of waves have been known for several centuries. The first
tide of scientific interest in wave-induced forces and torques emerged at the end of the …