EurekAlert May 7, 2020
Researchers in Spain have demonstrated that Maxwell’s equations, as well as the acoustic and elastic wave equations, also possess an underlying supersymmetry in the time domain. They explored the consequences of this property in the field of optics, obtaining a simple analytic relation between the scattering coefficients of numerous time-varying systems, and uncovering a wide class of reflectionless, three dimensional, all-dielectric, isotropic, omnidirectional, polarisation-independent, non-complex media. These unprecedented features may enable the creation of novel reconfigurable devices, including invisible materials, frequency shifters, isolators, and pulse-shape transformers…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
A team at UPV’s Nanophotonics Technology Center has discovered a new fundamental symmetry in electromagnetism, acoustics, and elasticity laws: a temporal supersymmetry Credit: UPV