Conformal cloak for waves

Journal Article · Sun May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.83.055801· OSTI ID:21546914

Huanyang, Chen ^[1]; Leonhardt, Ulf ^[2]; Tyc, Tomas ^[3]

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1. School of Physical Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006 Jiangsu (China)
2. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews KY16 9SS (United Kingdom)
3. Faculty of Science, Kotlarska 2, and Faculty of Informatics, Botanicka 68a, Masaryk University, CZ-61137 Brno (Czech Republic)

Conformal invisibility devices are only supposed to work within the valid range of geometrical optics. Here, we show by numerical simulations and analytical arguments that for certain quantized frequencies, they are nearly perfect even in a regime that clearly violates geometrical optics. The quantization condition follows from the analogy between the Helmholtz equation and the stationary Schroedinger equation.

• OSTI ID: 21546914
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Vol. 83, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.055801; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1050-2947
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
HELMHOLTZ THEOREM
OPTICS
QUANTIZATION
SCHROEDINGER EQUATION
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
EQUATIONS
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
SIMULATION
WAVE EQUATIONS