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most citedExcitation of absorbing exceptional points in the time domain

21 citations · 70 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

physics.optics2025

Time-Domain Excitation of Finite-Lifetime Resonances and Their Exceptional Points

Asaf Farhi, Dror Hershkovitz, Andrea Alu +1

Resonances associated with complex-frequency poles are ubiquitous across physics and can arise in any open system, ranging from subwavelength particles and cavities to biological s…

physics.optics2025

Driven Atoms and Molecules as Coherent Attosecond Waveform Processors

Asaf Farhi

Advancing temporal resolution in computation, signal modulation, and quantum measurement is fundamentally constrained in optical resonator platforms by a trade-off between operatio…

physics.app-ph2024

Universal framework for anisotropic particles with resonance laws and splitting

Asaf Farhi, Haim Suchowski

Nanophotonics enables precise control over light-matter interactions, though most established design frameworks for subwavelength nanoparticles rely on isotropic materials. Uniaxia…

physics.optics2024

Localized Resonant Phonon Polaritons in Biaxial Nanoparticles

Daniel Beitner, Asaf Farhi, Ravindra Kumar Nitharwal +5

The discovery of localized plasmon polariton resonances has been pivotal in enabling tunability of the optical resonance. Recently, extensive research efforts have aimed to expand…

quant-ph2023

Efficient General Waveform Catching by a cavity at a Virtual Absorbing Exceptional Point

Asaf Farhi, Wei Dai, Seunghwi Kim +2

State transfer and photon detection are fundamental processes that have direct implications in fields such as quantum computing and photonic circuits. However, while naturally emit…

physics.optics2023

Generating and processing optical waveforms using spectral singularities

Asaf Farhi, Alexander Cerjan, A. Douglas Stone

We show that a laser at threshold can be utilized to generate the class of coherent and transform-limited waveforms at optical freque…

physics.optics2022★ 21 cited

Excitation of absorbing exceptional points in the time domain

Asaf Farhi, Ahmed Mekawy, Andrea Alu +1

We analyze the time-domain dynamics of resonators supporting exceptional points (EPs), at which both the eigenfrequencies and the eigenmodes associated with perfect capture of an i…

physics.optics2022

Purcell factors and Forster resonance energy transfer in proximity to helical structures

Asaf Farhi, Aristide Dogariu

Both spontaneous emission and resonant energy transfer can be enhanced significantly when the emitter is placed in the vicinity of metallic or crystal structures. This enhancement…

physics.optics2020★ 7 cited

Coupling electrodynamic fields to vibrational modes in helical structures

Asaf Farhi, Aristide Dogariu

Helical structures like alpha helices, DNA, and microtubules have profound importance in biology. It has been suggested that these periodic arrangements of constituent units could…

physics.optics2019★ 4 cited

Three-dimensional-subwavelength field localization, time reversal of sources, and infinite-asymptotic degeneracy in spherical structures

Asaf Farhi

High-resolution field localization in three dimensions is one of the main challenges in optics and has immense importance in fields such as chemistry, biology, and medicine. In ord…

physics.optics2017★ 3 cited

Generating an electromagnetic multipole by oscillating currents

Asaf Farhi, David J. Bergman

Based on the relation between a plane phased array and plane waves we show that a spherical current layer or a current sphere proportional to a multipole electric field and situate…

physics.optics2017★ 12 cited

The electric field of a point charge in a spherical inclusion structure

Asaf Farhi, David J. Bergman

A point charge in the presence of a metallic nanoshpere is a fundamental setup, which has implications for Raman scattering, enhancement of spontaneous emission of a molecule by an…

physics.optics2016

Eigenstates of the full Maxwell equations for a two-constituent composite medium and their application to a calculation of the local electric field of a time dependent point electric dipole in a flat-slabs microstructure

Asaf Farhi, David J. Bergman

An exact calculation of the local electric field is described for the case of a time dependent point electric dipole in the top layer of an $ε_…

physics.chem-ph2015★ 4 cited

Calculation of molecular free energies in classical potentials

Asaf Farhi

Free energies of molecules can be calculated by quantum computations or by normal mode classical calculations. However, the first can be computationally impractical for large molec…

physics.chem-ph2015

Free energy calculation of a molecule by removing VDW and Coulomb interactions in a transformation and treating the molecule as non interacting systems

Asaf Farhi, Bipin Singh

Free energy calculations in molecular simulations have a variety of applications including determining the strength of molecular processes such as solvation and binding. It has bee…

physics.optics2014★ 15 cited

Exact analysis of a Veselago lens in the quasi-static regime

Asaf Farhi, David J. Bergman

The resolution of conventional optical lenses is limited by the wavelength. Materials with negative refractive index have been shown to enable the generation of an enhanced resolut…

physics.chem-ph2013

A novel method for calculating relative free energy of similar molecules in two environments

Asaf Farhi, Bipin Singh

Calculating relative free energies is a topic of substantial interest and has many applications including solvation and binding free energies, which are used in computational drug…

physics.chem-ph2013★ 1 cited

A general, efficient and robust method to calculate free energy difference between systems

Asaf Farhi

Calculating free energy differences is a topic of substantial interest and has many applications including molecular docking and hydration, solvation, and binding free energies whi…

q-bio.BM2012

Comparing secondary structures of RNA and calculating the free energy of an interior loop using a novel method for calculating free energy

Asaf Farhi

The thesis consists of two projects. In the first project, we present a software that analyses RNA secondary structures and compares them. The goal of this software is to find the…

cond-mat.stat-mech2012★ 3 cited

Temperature Integration: an efficient procedure for calculation of free energy differences

Asaf Farhi, Guy Hed, Michael Bon +3

We propose a method, Temperature Integration, which allows an efficient calculation of free energy differences between two systems of interest, with the same degrees of freedom, wh…