Negative refraction and tiling billiards

DOI10.1515/ADVGEOM-2017-0053MaRDI QIDQ1747149zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Diana Davis, Jenny Rustad, Alexander St Laurent, Kelsey L. DiPietro

Publication date 4 May 2018

Published in advg (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02053

zbMATH Keywords

negative refractiontiling billiard

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Tilings in (2) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C20)

Abstract: We introduce a new dynamical system that we call "tiling billiards," where trajectories refract through planar tilings. This system is motivated by a recent discovery of physical substances with negative indices of refraction. We investigate several special cases where the planar tiling is created by dividing the plane by lines, and we describe the results of computer experiments.

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