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Maxwells classic equations with fields, potentials, positive and negative charges in 3+1 spacetime are derived solely from the symmetry that is required by the Geometric Algebra of a 3+3 spacetime. The observed direction of time is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Carroll

We propose a consistent approach to the definition of electric, magnetic, and toroidal multipole moments. Electric and magnetic fields are split into potential, vortex, and radiative terms, with the latter ones dropped off in the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Yuri Krynytskyi , Andrij Rovenchak

Using to a minimum extent special relativity input, and relying on the Lorentz-force expression for the force acting on a charged particle in motion under the influence of electric (E) and magnetic (B) fields, the Maxwell curl equations are…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Avraham Gal

A uniqueness result for the recovery of the electric and magnetic coefficients in the time-harmonic Maxwell equations from local boundary measurements is proven. No special geometrical condition is imposed on the inaccessible part of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Malcolm Brown , Marco Marletta , Juan Manuel Reyes

Electromagnetic phenomena can be described by Maxwell equations written for the vectors of electric and magnetic field. Equivalently, electrodynamics can be reformulated in terms of an electromagnetic vector potential. We demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 A. A. Deriglazov

It is shown that every regular electromagnetic field in vacuum identically satisfy Maxwell equations in a new manifold where the roles of space and time have been exchanged. The new metric is Lorentzian, depends on the particular solution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 Érico Goulart , Eduardo Bittencourt

Abraham forces are defined as electromagnetic forces on neutral objects caused by the presence of slow, time-dependent, homogeneous electromagnetic fields. Only a few experimental observations have been reported, and different formulations…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-20 B. A. van Tiggelen

This paper aims to present an elaborate view on the motivation and realization of the idea to extend Maxwell's electrodynamics to Extended Electrodynamics in a reasonable and appropriate way in order to make it possible to describe…

patt-sol · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Donev , M. Tashkova

We revisit the invariance of the curved spacetime Maxwell equations under conformal transformations. Contrary to standard literature, we include the discussion of the four-current, the wave equations for the four-potential and the field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-25 Jeremy Côté , Valerio Faraoni , Andrea Giusti

The existence of twisted light may be inferred from modern quantum concepts and experimental data. These waves possess energy, impulse and angular momentum. However, the Maxwell's four-dimensional theory of electromagnetism does not imply…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Yuriy A. Portnov

Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force density are expressed using an alternative simultaneity gauge. As a result, they describe electrodynamics for an observer travelling with a constant velocity through an isotropic medium. If desired,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Benjamin Nasmith

The Schr\"odinger equation for a charged particle in the field of a nonrelativistic electric quadrupole in two dimensions is known to be separable in spherical coordinates. We investigate the occurrence of bound states of negative energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-05 Francisco M. Fernández

Previously we conjectured that extremely high Electromagnetic (EM) fields in a vacuum generate a gravitational field that causes Maxwell's equations to no longer be linear. This results in a "4-force" in the field configuration space, also…

General Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Pierre Marx

We present a framework for quantization of electromagnetic field in the presence of dielectric media with time-varying optical properties. Considering a microscopic model for the dielectric as a collection of matter fields interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-15 Ashwith Prabhu , Jennifer Parra-Contreras , Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt , Kanu Sinha

We review the status of electric/magnetic duality for free gauge field theories in four space-time dimensions with emphasis on Maxwell theory and linearized Einstein gravity. Using the theory of vector and tensor spherical harmonics, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-15 Ioannis Bakas

This paper offers an informal instructive introduction to some of the main notions of geometric continuum mechanics for the case of smooth fields. We use a metric invariant stress theory of continuum mechanics to formulate a simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-14 Reuven Segev

The known possibility to consider the (vacuum) Maxwell equations in a curved space-time as Maxwell equations in flat space-time(Mandel'stam L.I., Tamm I.E.) taken in an effective media the properties of which are determined by metrical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 V. M. Red'kov , N. G. Tokarevskaya , E. M. Bychkouskaya , George J. Spix

The time dependent Dirac-Maxwell's Equations in presence of electric and magnetic sources are written in chiral media and the solutions for the classical problem are obtained in unique simple and consistent manner. The quaternion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 P. S. Bisht , Jivan Singh , O. P. S. Negi

Starting from the experimental fact that a moving charge experiences the Lorentz force and applying the fundamental principles of simplicity (first order derivatives only) and linearity (superposition principle), we show that the structure…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Gerhard Diener , Jürgen Weissbarth , Frank Grossmann , Rüdiger Schmidt

The classical macroscopic Maxwell equations are approximated. They are a corollary of the multipole expansion of the local electrostatic potential up to dipolar terms. But quadrupolarization of the medium should not be neglected if the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-10-28 Radomir I. Slavchov , Iglika M. Dimitrova , Tzanko I. Ivanov