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The dielectric susceptibility of a wide class of dielectric materials follows, over extended frequency ranges, a fractional power-law frequency dependence that is called the "universal" response. The electromagnetic fields in such…

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Almost a hundred years ago, two different expressions were proposed for the energy--momentum tensor of an electromagnetic wave in a dielectric. Minkowski's tensor predicted an increase in the linear momentum of the wave on entering a…

In media with strong spatial dispersion the electric displacement vector and the electric field are typically linked by a partial differential equation in the bulk region. The objective of this work is to highlight that in the vicinity of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 João T. Costa , Mário G. Silveirinha

The force density on matter and the kinetic energy-momentum tensor of the electromagnetic field in matter are obtained starting from Maxwell equations and Lorentz force at microscopic level and averaging over a small region of space-time.…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-08-18 Rodrigo Medina , J. Stephany

Transformation equations for physical quantities that characterize plane electromagnetic wave propagation in transparent optical media are presented. The Doppler effect, and measurements performed by an observer moving with the wave are…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-04 B. Rothenstein , A. De Sabata

We develop a new method to calculate the evanescent wave, the subdivided evanescent waves (SEWs), and the radiative wave, which can be obtained by separating the global field of the image of metamaterial superlens. The method is based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Wei Li , Xunya Jiang

The electromagnetic analog of an elastic spring-mass network is constructed. These electromagnetic circuits offer the promise of manipulating electromagnetic fields in new ways, and linear electrical circuits correspond to a subclass of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-08-02 Graeme W. Milton , Pierre Seppecher

The general method to obtain solutions of the Maxwellian equations from scalar representatives is developed and applied to the diffraction of electromagnetic waves. Kirchhoff's integral is modified to provide explicit expressions for these…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ulrich Brosa

Whereas electromagnetic surface waves are confined to a planar interface between two media, line waves exist at the one-dimensional interface between three materials. Here we derive a non-local integral equation for computing the properties…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-23 S. A. R. Horsley , A. Dwivedi

We find that the energy-dynamic tensor of electromagnetic wave in medium defined by Lagrange density is very similar to that of ordinary fluid, and density and pressure can be defined similarly. The pressure here is different from the…

General Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Gui-Xiong Liang

Suggestion of physics laboratory exercises and discussion of the physics laboratory curricula for engineering majors where the properties of light and electromagnetic waves are studied in parallel. It is shown that one of the important…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-13 Roman Ya. Kezerashvili

The article describes a new approach to obtaining the energy-momentum tensor of electromagnetic field in medium without the use of Maxwell's equations and Poynting theorem. The energy-momentum tensor has new qualities and consequences. Its…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Yurii A. Spirichev

We consider time-harmonic electromagnetic wave equations in composites of a dispersive material surrounded by a classical material. In certain frequency ranges this leads to sign-changing permittivity and/or permeability. Previously meshing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Martin Halla

The theory of electromagnetic in nature new component of electrical current is suggested. In classical physics approximations for the cases of the free electron plasmas in semi-conductive media, the atom or molecular electrons of liquids…

General Physics · Physics 2009-08-12 P. M. Mednis

We derive expressions for the electromagnetic Green's function for a layered system using a transfer matrix technique. The expressions we arrive at makes it possible to study symmetry properties of the Green's function, such as reciprocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Peter Johansson

We extend the usual derivation of the wave equation from Maxwell's equations in vacuum to the case of electromagnetic fields in dispersive homogeneous isotropic linear media. Usually, dispersive properties of materials are studied in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-08-29 V. A. Coelho , F. S. S. Rosa , Reinaldo de Melo e Souza , C. Farina , M. V. Cougo-Pinto

The electrodynamics of two-dimensional (2D) dielectric and conducting layers cannot be described by such three-dimensional macroscopic quantities as the dielectric constant $\epsilon$ or the refractive index $n$. By means of the proper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 S. A. Mikhailov

The total momentum of a thermodynamically closed system is unique, as is the total energy. Nevertheless, there is continuing confusion concerning the correct form of the momentum and the energy-momentum tensor for an electromagnetic field…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-12 Michael E. Crenshaw , Thomas B. Bahder

By using the quantum hydrodynamic and Maxwell equations, we derive nonlinear electron-magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), Hall-MHD, and dust Hall-MHD equations for dense quantum magnetoplasmas. The nonlinear equations include the electromagnetic,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Shukla , G. Brodin , M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo

In this paper, we present the general governing equations of electrodynamics and continuum mechanics that need to be considered while mathematically modelling the behaviour of electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs). We consider the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Prashant Saxena