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Scattering of transverse electric and transverse magnetic waves and quantum dynamics generated by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians

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Loran, Farhang

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The study of the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a linear isotropic medium with planar symmetry can be reduced to that of their transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes. For situations where the medium consists of parallel homogeneous slabs, one may use the standard transfer matrix technique to address the scattering problem for these modes. We extend the utility of this technique to inhomogeneous permittivity and permeability profiles by proposing a dynamical formulation of the scattering of TE and TM waves in which the transfer matrix for the medium is given in terms of the evolution operator for an effective nonunitary quantum system. This leads to a system of dynamical equations for the reflection and transmission amplitudes. Decoupling these equations, we reduce the solution of the scattering problem for TE and TM modes to that of an initial-value problem for a Riccati equation. We discuss the application of this observation in identifying media that do not reflect TE or TM waves with a given wavenumber and incidence angle.

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Oxford University Press

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Physics, multidisciplinary, Physics, particles and fields

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Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics

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10.1093/ptep/ptae178

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