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An electromagnetic trinity from "negative permittivity" and "negative permeability"

2001/11/30 by Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.class-ph

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published as Int. J. Infrared Millim. Waves, Vol. 23, pp. 813-818 (2002) · 5 pages

arxiv created 2001/11/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

An electromagnetic trinity comprising vacuum, anti--vacuum, and nihility is postulated -- after making use of materials with "negative permittivity" and "negative permeability" -- to illuminate the structure of electromagnetic theory, at least insofar as the relationship of phase velocity with Poynting vector is concerned.

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