Gyrotropic response in the absence of a bias field

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 13194-13197

  Wang, Zhiyu ^a,b   Wang, Zheng ^b,c   Wang, Jingyu ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Huangfu, Jiangtao ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^b   Soljačić, Marin ^b   Ran, Lixin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective media; Magneto optics; Nonreciprocal systems; Time reversal symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; GYROTROPIC MATERIAL; MICROWAVE RADIATION; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

EID: 84865165317     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210923109     Document Type: Article

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