Electromagnetic duality symmetry and helicity conservation for the macroscopic maxwell's equations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Fernandez Corbaton, Ivan ^a   Zambrana Puyalto, Xavier ^a   Tischler, Nora ^a   Vidal, Xavier ^a   Juan, Mathieu L ^a   Molina Terriza, Gabriel ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION LAW; HELICITIES; HELICITY CONSERVATION; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; MAGNETIC SPHERES; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; NATURAL MODES; SPATIAL INVERSION SYMMETRY;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; RESTORATION;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 84881515002     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.060401     Document Type: Article

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