On the Huygens principle for bianisotropic mediums with symmetric permittivity and permeability dyadics

Muhammad Faryad, Akhlesh Lakhtakia

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Abstract

Mathematical statements of the Huygens principle relate the electric and magnetic field phasors at an arbitrary location in a source-free region enclosed by a surface to the tangential components of the electric and magnetic field phasors over that surface, via the dyadic Green functions applicable to the linear homogeneous medium occupying that region. We have mathematically formulated the Huygens principle for the electric and magnetic field phasors when the permittivity and permeability dyadics of the medium are symmetric, the symmetric parts of the two magnetoelectric dyadics of the medium are negative of each other, and both magnetoelectric dyadics also contain anti-symmetric terms. We have also formulated the Huygens principle for the electric (resp. magnetic) field phasor in a medium whose permittivity (resp. permeability) is scalar, the permeability (resp. permittivity) is symmetric, the symmetric parts of the two magnetoelectric dyadics reduce to dissimilar scalars, and anti-symmetric parts of the two magnetoelectric dyadics are identical.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)742-746
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume381
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 19 2017

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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