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Close-to-touching acoustic subwavelength resonators: eigenfrequency separation and gradient blow-up
(2020)SAM Research ReportIn this paper, we study the behaviour of the coupled subwavelength resonant modes when two high-contrast acoustic resonators are brought close together. We consider the case of spherical resonators and use bispherical coordinates to derive explicit representations for the capacitance coefficients which, we show, capture the system's resonant behaviour at leading order. We prove that the pair of resonators has two subwavelength resonant ...Report -
Super-resolution in recovering embedded electromagnetic sources in high contrast media
(2020)SAM Research ReportThe purpose of this work is to provide a rigorous mathematical analysis of the expected super-resolution phenomenon in the time-reversal imaging of electromagnetic (EM) radiating sources embedded in a high contrast medium. It is known that the resolution limit is essentially determined by the sharpness of the imaginary part of the EM Green's tensor for the associated background. We first establish the close connection between the resolution ...Report -
Mathematical modelling of plasmonic strain sensors
(2020)SAM Research ReportWe provide a mathematical analysis for a metasurface constructed of plasmonic nanoparticles mounted periodically on the surface of a microcapsule. We derive an effective transmission condition, which exhibits resonances depending on the inter-particle distance. When the microcapsule is deformed, the resonances are shifted. We fully characterise the dependence of these resonances on the deformation of the microcapsule, enabling the detection ...Report -
Localized sensitivity analysis at high-curvature boundary points of reconstructing inclusions in transmission problems
(2020)SAM Research ReportIn this paper, we are concerned with the recovery of the geometric shapes of inhomogeneous inclusions from the associated far field data in electrostatics and acoustic scattering. We present a local resolution analysis and show that the local shape around a boundary point with a high magnitude of mean curvature can be reconstructed more easily and stably. In proving this, we develop a novel mathematical scheme by analyzing the generalized ...Report -
Wave interaction with subwavelength resonators
(2020)SAM Research ReportThe aim of this review is to cover recent developments in the mathematical analysis of subwavelength resonators. The use of sophisticated mathematics in the field of metamaterials is reported, which provides a mathematical framework for focusing, trapping, and guiding of waves at subwavelength scales. Throughout this review, the power of layer potential techniques combined with asymptotic analysis for solving challenging wave propagation ...Report -
Robust edge modes in dislocated systems of subwavelength resonators
(2020)SAM Research ReportRobustly manipulating waves on subwavelength scales can be achieved by, firstly, designing a structure with a subwavelength band gap and, secondly, introducing a defect so that localized modes fall within the band gap. We study a one-dimensional array of subwavelength resonators, prove that there is a subwavelength band gap, and show that by introducing a dislocation we can place localized modes at any point within the band gap. We ...Report -
Edge modes in active systems of subwavelength resonators
(2020)SAM Research ReportWave scattering structures with amplification and dissipation can be modelled by non-Hermitian systems, opening new ways to control waves at small length scales. In this work, we study the phenomenon of topologically protected edge states in acoustic systems with gain and loss. We demonstrate that localized edge modes appear in a periodic structure of subwavelength resonators with a defect in the gain/loss distribution, and explicitly ...Report -
Quantum ergodicity and localization of plasmon resonances
(2020)SAM Research ReportWe are concerned with the geometric properties of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR). SPR is a non-radiative electromagnetic surface wave that propagates in a direction parallel to the negative permittivity/dielectric material interface. It is known that the SPR oscillation is topologically very sensitive to the material interface. However, we show that the SPR oscillation asympotically localizes at places with high magnitude of curvature ...Report -
Exceptional points in parity-time-symmetric subwavelength metamaterials
(2020)SAM Research ReportWhen sources of energy gain and loss are introduced to a wave scattering system, the underlying mathematical formulation will be non-Hermitian. This paves the way for the existence of exceptional points, whereby eigenmodes are linearly dependent. The main goal of this work is to study the existence and consequences of exceptional points in the setting of high-contrast subwavelength metamaterials. We begin by studying a system of two ...Report -
Quantitative estimates for stress concentration of the Stokes flow between adjacent circular cylinders
(2020)SAM Research ReportWhen two inclusions with high contrast material properties are located close to each other in a homogeneous medium, stress may become arbitrarily large in the narrow region between them. In this paper, we investigate such stress concentration in the two-dimensional Stokes flow when inclusions are the two-dimensional cross sections of circular cylinders of the same radii and the background velocity field is linear. We construct two ...Report