Abstract
Zhang et al. [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 5, 1601 (1988)] derived the Lorentz-Lorenz formula for a dielectric-magnetic substance by modeling its molecules into electric and magnetic dipoles that depend separately on the local electric and magnetic fields, respectively. They eventually obtained a result [Eq. (20) in their paper] that is obvious because they used (independent) electrostatic and magnetostatic models earlier in their paper to identify ϵ and µ separately.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1794-1795 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1989 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition