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We examine a dielectric medium supporting a magnetic current in connection with optical properties and energy propagation. The dispersion relations, propagating modes, and some optical effects are examined for isotropic and anisotropic…
We investigate the optical properties of bi-isotropic materials under the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) of axion electrodynamics. Four refractive indices associated with circularly polarized waves are achieved, implying circular birefringence…
For isotropic media, the magnetic field applied across the light propagation direction affects their optical properties only in the second order, and its effect proves to be much weaker than in the longitudinal field. In this work, we show…
We develop an effective medium theory for electromagnetic wave propagation through gapless non-uniform systems with dynamic chiral magnetic effect. The theory allows to calculate macroscopic-disorder-induced corrections to the values of…
The Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) has been investigated as a new transport phenomenon in condensed matter. Such an effect appears in systems with chiral fermions and involves an electric current generated by a magnetic field by means of an…
Photonic structures and time-crystals, wherein time is incorporated as an additional degree of freedom for light manipulation, have necessitated the development of analytical and semi-analytical tools. However, such tools are currently…
Negative real parts of the permittivity and permeability lead an isotropic chiral medium to exhibit circular dichroism that is reversed with respect to that exhibited by an identical medium but the real parts of whose permittivity and…
Materials with optical activity can rotate the polarization plane of transmitted light. The most typical example is the natural optical activity, which has the symmetry property of changing sign after space inversion but being invariant to…
The dispersive propagation and absorption in the domain of a Drude-Lorentz dielectric modified by a magnetic current are classically investigated, taking as the starting point the Drude electric permittivity, in connection with the chiral…
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We present holographic computations of the time-dependent chiral magnetic conductivity in the framework of gauge/gravity correspondence. Chiral magnetic effect is a phenomenon where an electromagnetic current parallel to an applied magnetic…
Dielectric Mie nanoresonators showing strong light-matter interaction at the nanoscale may enable new functionality in photonic devices. Recently, strong magneto-optical effects have been observed in magneto-optical nanophotonic devices due…
We consider magnetostatics of chiral media with a non-vanishing chiral chemical potential $\mu_5\neq 0$. The chiral anomaly is known to have macroscopic manifestations which go beyond the standard classical electrodynamics and we introduce…
Temporally varying electromagnetic media have been extensively investigated recently to unveil new means for controlling light. However, spin-dependent phenomena in such media have not been explored thoroughly. Here, we reveal the existence…
An initially isotropic medium, when subjected to either a magnetic field or a coherent field, can induce anisotropy in the medium and can cause the polarization of a probe field to rotate. Therefore the rotation of probe polarization, due…
The T-reversal-violating optical gyrotropy is discussed. An expression for dielectric permittivity describing T-reversal-violating phenomena in a medium exposed to external electric and magnetic fields is presented. Optical phenomena of…