Surface mesoscopic effects in finite metamaterials

Mesoscopic Effects in Superconductivity

Surface breathers in discrete magnetic metamaterials.

We analyze the properties of discrete breathers excited near the edge of a one-dimensional metamaterial created by a truncated array of nonlinear split-ring resonators. We study a crossover between nonlinear surface states and discrete breathers by analyzing the modes centered at finite distances from the array edge and demonstrate the existence of a class of nonlinear localized surface states,...

Engineered surface waves in hyperbolic metamaterials.

We analyzed surface-wave propagation that takes place at the boundary between a semi-infinite dielectric and a multilayered metamaterial, the latter with indefinite permittivity and cut normally to the layers. Known hyperbolization of the dispersion curve is discussed within distinct spectral regimes, including the role of the surrounding material. Hybridization of surface waves enable tighter ...

Experiments on seismic metamaterials: molding surface waves.

Materials engineered at the micro- and nanometer scales have had a tremendous and lasting impact in photonics and phononics. At much larger scales, natural soils civil engineered at decimeter to meter scales may interact with seismic waves when the global properties of the medium are modified, or alternatively thanks to a seismic metamaterial constituted of a mesh of vertical empty inclusions b...

Generic finite-size enhancement of pairing in mesoscopic Fermi systems

M. Farine, F. W. J. Hekking, P. Schuck, and X. Viñas Consulat Général de France à Canton, 339 Huan Shi Dong Lu, 510098 Guangzhou, Canton, China Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés, CNRS and Université Joseph Fourier, Maison des Magistères, Boı̂te Postal 166, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Institut de Physique Nucléaire, IN2P3–CNRS, Université Paris–Sud, F-91406 Orsay-Cé...