Negative Refraction as a Source of Some Pedagogical Problems

• Authors: V. Veselago
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The appearance of material with negative values of dielectric and magnetic permeabilities ε and μ and with negative index of refraction n forces to revise the accustomed forms of some well-known formulae of electrodynamics. This is connected with fact, that these correlations in repressing majority of sources is written in tacit suggestion that magnetic permeability of most of materials is μ=1, factor of refraction n=ε and is undoubtedly executed the correlation n > 0. Such approach could be named as "nonmagnetic". However, if n <0, this nonmagnetic approach can bring very hard mistakes.

Keywords

EN

78.20.Ci; 41.20.Jb

Discipline

• 41.20.Jb: Electromagnetic wave propagation; radiowave propagation(for light propagation, see 42.25.Bs; for electromagnetic waves in plasma, see 52.35.Hr; for atmospheric, ionospheric, and magnetospheric propagation, see 92.60.Ta, 94.20.Bb, and 94.30.Tz, respectively; see also 94.05.Pt Wave/wave, wave/particle interactions, in space plasma physics)
• 78.20.Ci: Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 112
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 777-781

Dates

published

2007-11

received

2007-09-03

Contributors

author

V. Veselago

• Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 9 Institutskii per., Dolgoprudny, 141700 Moscow Region, Russia
• A.M. Prokhorov Institute of General Physics, RAS, Russia, 38 Vavilov str., 119991, Moscow, Russia

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.112.777