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  2. Transformation optics - Wikipedia

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    Transformation optics is the foundation for exploring a diverse set of theoretical, numerical, and experimental developments, involving the perspectives of the physics and engineering communities. The multi-disciplinary perspectives for inquiry and designing of materials develop understanding of their behaviors, properties, and potential ...

  3. Transfer-matrix method (optics) - Wikipedia

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    The transfer-matrix method is a method used in optics and acoustics to analyze the propagation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves through a stratified medium; a stack of thin films. [1] [2] This is, for example, relevant for the design of anti-reflective coatings and dielectric mirrors.

  4. Metamaterial cloaking - Wikipedia

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    Hence, with these two papers, transformation optics is born. [2] [9] [10] Transformation optics subscribes to the capability of bending light, or electromagnetic waves and energy, in any preferred or desired fashion, for a desired application. Maxwell's equations do not vary even though coordinates transform. Instead it is the values of the ...

  5. Fuchsian group - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a Fuchsian group is a discrete subgroup of PSL(2,R).The group PSL(2,R) can be regarded equivalently as a group of orientation-preserving isometries of the hyperbolic plane, or conformal transformations of the unit disc, or conformal transformations of the upper half plane, so a Fuchsian group can be regarded as a group acting on any of these spaces.

  6. Topology - Wikipedia

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    A three-dimensional model of a figure-eight knot.The figure-eight knot is a prime knot and has an Alexander–Briggs notation of 4 1.. Topology (from the Greek words τόπος, 'place, location', and λόγος, 'study') is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling ...

  7. Topological group - Wikipedia

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    The real numbers form a topological group under addition. In mathematics, topological groups are the combination of groups and topological spaces, i.e. they are groups and topological spaces at the same time, such that the continuity condition for the group operations connects these two structures together and consequently they are not independent from each other.

  8. Chern–Simons theory - Wikipedia

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    In general the connection A is only defined on individual coordinate patches, and the values of A on different patches are related by maps known as gauge transformations. These are characterized by the assertion that the covariant derivative , which is the sum of the exterior derivative operator d and the connection A , transforms in the ...

  9. Exceptional point - Wikipedia

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    The losses in photonic systems, are a feature used to study non-Hermitian physics. [2] Adding non-Hermiticity (such as dichroism) to photonic systems which present Dirac points transforms these degeneracy points into pairs of exceptional points.