2003/03/21 by Alexander A. Zharov, Ilya V. Shadrivov, Yuri S. Kivshar · 2 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #cond-mat.mtrl-sci #nlin.PS
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.91.037401
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 037401 (2003) · 4 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2003/03/21 · openalex publication_date 2003/07/18 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
We analyze the properties of microstructured materials with negative refraction, the so-called left-handed metamaterials. We consider a two-dimensional periodic structure created by arrays of wires and split-ring resonators embedded into a nonlinear dielectric, and calculate the effective nonlinear electric permittivity and magnetic permeability. We demonstrate that the hysteresis-type dependence of the magnetic permeability on the field intensity allows changing the material properties from left- to right-handed and back. These effects can be treated as the second-order phase transitions in the transmission properties induced by the variation of an external field.