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Open Quantum Systems Decoherence

Pseudo-Hermiticity and Electromagnetic Wave Propagation: The case of anisotropic and lossy media

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Authors: A. Mostafazadeh, G. Scolarici

Year

2010

Paper ID

8966

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Preprint

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Pseudo-Hermitian operators can be used in modeling electromagnetic wave propagation in stationary lossless media. We extend this method to a class of non-dispersive anisotropic media that may display loss or gain. We explore three concrete models to demonstrate the utility of our general results and reveal the physical meaning of pseudo-Hermiticity and quasi-Hermiticity of the relevant wave operator. In particular, we consider a uniaxial model where this operator is not diagonalizable. This implies left-handedness of the medium in the sense that only clockwise circularly polarized plane-wave solutions are bounded functions of time.

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Pseudo-Hermitian operators can be used in modeling electromagnetic wave propagation in stationary lossless media.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1004.1904 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1904 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1904

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