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- Fresnel analysis of wave propagation in nonlinear electrodynamics
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- Univ Cologne
- 0556-2821
- We study wave propagation in local nonlinear electrodynamical models. Particular attention is paid to the derivation and the analysis of the Fresnel equation for the wave covectors. For the class of local nonlinear Lagrangian nondispersive models, we demonstrate how the originally quartic Fresnel equation factorizes, yielding the generic birefringence effect. We show that the closure of the effective constitutive (or jump) tensor is necessary and sufficient for the absence of birefringence, i.e., for the existence of a unique light cone structure. As another application of the Fresnel approach, we analyze the light propagation in a moving isotropic nonlinear medium. The corresponding effective constitutive tensor contains nontrivial skewon and axion pieces. For nonmagnetic matter, we find that birefringence is induced by the nonlinearity, and derive the corresponding optical metrics.
- 15-Jul-2002
- Physical Review D. College Pk: American Physical Soc, v. 66, n. 2, 11 p., 2002.
- 11
- American Physical Soc
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.024042
- http://hdl.handle.net/11449/23502
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