Towards an experimental realization of affinely transformed linearized quantum electrodynamics vacuum via inverse homogenization

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1680-1684

  Mackay, Tom G ^a,b   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LINEARIZATION; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; VACUUM;

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; BRUGGEMAN FORMALISM; COMPONENT MATERIALS; DEGREE OF ANISOTROPY; DIELECTRIC-MAGNETIC MEDIUM; HOMOGENIZED COMPOSITES; INVERSE HOMOGENIZATION; MAGNETOSTATIC FIELD; NONLINEAR MEDIUM; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SMALL AMPLITUDE; SPATIAL COORDINATES; SPHEROIDAL PARTICLES; TIME-VARYING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84863844373     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.001680     Document Type: Article

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