The newly emerging field of wave front sha** in complex media has recently seen
enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the experimental …

The scattering of electromagnetic waves lies at the heart of most experimental techniques
over nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from radio waves to optics and x …

The random laser represents a non-conventional laser whose feedback is mediated by
random fluctuation of the dielectric constant in space. Depending on whether the feedback is …

We show that it is possible to cool a nanomechanical resonator mode to its ground state.
The proposed technique is based on resonant laser excitation of a phonon sideband of an …

The development of efficient techniques to distinguish mirror images of chiral molecules
(enantiomers) is very important in both chemistry and physics. Enantiomers share most …

Wave absorption in time-invariant, passive thin films is fundamentally limited by a trade-off
between bandwidth and overall thickness. In this work, we investigate the use of temporal …

Polaritonic chemistry is an interdisciplinary emerging field that presents several challenges
and opportunities in chemistry, physics, and engineering. A systematic review of polaritonic …

Symmetries and tunability are of fundamental importance in wave scattering control, but
symmetries are often obvious upon visual inspection, which constitutes a significant …

Gauge freedom in quantum electrodynamics (QED) outside of textbook regimes is reviewed.
It is emphasized that QED subsystems are defined relative to a choice of gauge. Each …

State of the art nanomechanical resonators present quality factors Q∼ 10 3–10 5, which are
much lower than those that can be naively extrapolated from the behavior of …