Energy conservation and the constitutive relations in chiral and non-reciprocal media

Steve M. Barnett; Robert P Cameron

doi:10.1088/2040-8978/18/1/015404

Energy conservation and the constitutive relations in chiral and non-reciprocal media

Steve M. Barnett, Robert P Cameron

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Abstract

We consider the possibility that the chirality parameters and the non-reciprocity parameters appearing in the constitutive relations for the displacement and magnetic induction ﬁelds in a biisotropic medium might not be equal and thereby shed light on the physical signiﬁcance of the fact that they are the same. We ﬁnd, in particular, that they must be equal in order to retain the local conservation of energy.

Original language	English
Article number	015404
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Optics
Volume	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/18/1/015404
Publication status	Published - 11 Dec 2015

Keywords

energy conservation
non-reciprocal media
chiral media
chirality
optical activity
constitutive relations

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