Canonical quantization of macroscopic electrodynamics in a linear, inhomogeneous magneto-electric medium
Abstract
We present a canonical quantization of macroscopic electrodynamics. The results apply to inhomogeneous media with a broad class of linear magneto-electric responses which are consistent with the Kramers-Kronig and Onsager relations. Through its ability to accommodate strong dispersion and loss, our theory provides a rigorous foundation for the study of quantum optical processes in structures incorporating metamaterials, provided these may be modeled as magneto-electric media. Previous canonical treatments of dielectric and magneto-dielectric media have expressed the electromagnetic field operators in either a Green function or mode expansion representation. Here we present our results in the mode expansion picture with a view to applications in guided wave and cavity quantum optics.
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@article{arxiv.1209.4401,
title = {Canonical quantization of macroscopic electrodynamics in a linear, inhomogeneous magneto-electric medium},
author = {A. C. Judge and M. J. Steel and J. E. Sipe and C. M. de Sterke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.4401},
year = {2015}
}
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Submitted to Physical Review A 24/07/2012