If a quantum mechanical particle is scattered by a potential well, the wave function of the particle can propagate with negative phase time. Because of the analogy of the Schrödinger and Helmholtz equations this phenomenon is expected to be observable for electromagnetic wave propagation. Experimental data for electromagnetic wells realized by waveguides filled with different dielectrics now co...

Abstract. We study long range propagation of electromagnetic waves in random waveguides with rectangular cross-section and perfectly conducting boundaries. The waveguide is filled with an isotropic linear dielectric material, with randomly fluctuating electric permittivity. The fluctuations are weak, but they cause significant cumulative scattering over long distances of propagation of the wave...

A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a magnetized plasma is predicted. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon–photon scattering is taken into account. This scattering gives rise to a new coupling between the matter and the radiation. Specifically, we consider an electron–positr...

In this paper, the theoretical perfectly absorbing boundary condition on the boundary of a half{space domain is developed for the Maxwell system by considering the system in whole instead of considering each component of the electromagnetic elds individually. This boundary condition allows any wave motion generated within the domain to pass through the boundary of the domain without generating ...