Optical properties and energy propagation in a dielectric medium supporting magnetic current

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Main Authors: Silva, Pedro D. S., Neves, Mario J., Ferreira Jr, Manoel M.
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Published: 2023
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author Silva, Pedro D. S.
Neves, Mario J.
Ferreira Jr, Manoel M.
author_facet Silva, Pedro D. S.
Neves, Mario J.
Ferreira Jr, Manoel M.
contents 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 magnetic conductivity tensors, with the latter ones implying nonreciprocal permittivities. The eigenvalues of the effective permittivity are carried out and associated with the optical symmetries (uniaxial, biaxial) and the subjacent crystal systems. Aspects of electromagnetic energy transport for such systems are also discussed, with the group and energy velocities being presented and carried out for all the particular cases addressed. Our results suggest that a dielectric supporting magnetic current breaks the usual equivalence between group velocity and energy velocity that holds in a nonabsorbing medium, while establishing the equivalence between them in an effective absorbing scenario, two unexpected behaviors.
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spellingShingle Optical properties and energy propagation in a dielectric medium supporting magnetic current
Silva, Pedro D. S.
Neves, Mario J.
Ferreira Jr, Manoel M.
Other Condensed Matter
Optics
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 magnetic conductivity tensors, with the latter ones implying nonreciprocal permittivities. The eigenvalues of the effective permittivity are carried out and associated with the optical symmetries (uniaxial, biaxial) and the subjacent crystal systems. Aspects of electromagnetic energy transport for such systems are also discussed, with the group and energy velocities being presented and carried out for all the particular cases addressed. Our results suggest that a dielectric supporting magnetic current breaks the usual equivalence between group velocity and energy velocity that holds in a nonabsorbing medium, while establishing the equivalence between them in an effective absorbing scenario, two unexpected behaviors.
title Optical properties and energy propagation in a dielectric medium supporting magnetic current
topic Other Condensed Matter
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08153