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| Authors | Tom G. Mackay, Akhlesh Lakhtakia |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0511210 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0511210 |
Abstract
In an isotropic, homogeneous, nondissipative, dielectric-magnetic medium that is simply moving with respect to an inertial reference frame, planewave solutions of the Maxwell curl postulates can be such that the phase velocity and the time-averaged Poynting vector are mutually orthogonal. Orthogonal-phase-velocity propagation thus adds to the conventional positive-phase-velocity propagation and the recently discovered negative-phase-velocity propagation that is associated with the phenomenon of negative refraction.
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