Suppression of left-handed properties in disordered metamaterials
Optics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We study the effect of disorder on the effective magnetic response of composite left-handed metamaterials and their specific properties such as negative refraction. We show that relatively weak disorder in the split-ring resonators can reduce and even completely eliminate the frequency domain where the composite material demonstrates the left-handed properties. We introduce the concept of the order parameter to describe novel physics of this effect.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0411208,
title = {Suppression of left-handed properties in disordered metamaterials},
author = {Alexander A. Zharov and Ilya V. Shadrivov and Yuri S. Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0411208},
year = {2007}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures