Spherical symmetry breaking in electric, magnetic and toroidal multipole moment radiations in spherical toroidal resonant cavities and optimum-efficiency antennas



Document title: Spherical symmetry breaking in electric, magnetic and toroidal multipole moment radiations in spherical toroidal resonant cavities and optimum-efficiency antennas
Journal: Revista mexicana de física
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000447027
ISSN: 0035-001X
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Física, Ciudad de México. México
2Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts. Estados Unidos de América
Year:
Season: Mar-Abr
Volumen: 67
Number: 2
Pages: 174-179
Country: México
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, teórico
English abstract This Letter reports the breaking of the spherical symmetry in the complete electromagnetic multipole expansion when its sources are distributed on spherical toroidal surfaces, identifying the specific geometrical and physical changes from the familiar case of sources on a spherical surface. In fact, for spherical toroids defined by concentric spherical rings and symmetric conical rings, the boundary conditions at the latter are not compatible in general with integer values for the orbital angular momentum label of the multipole moments: the polar angle eigenfunctions become Legendre functions of order λ and associativity m represented as infinite series with a definite parity, and their complementary associated radial functions are spherical Bessel functions of the same order λ. Consequently, the corresponding multipole sources for the electric, magnetic and toroidal moments and their connections are identified within the Debye formalism, and the appropriate outgoing wave Green functions are constructed in the new basis of eigenfunctions of the Helmholtz equation. Our familiarity with the exact solutions, for the cases of the complete sphere and of cylindrical toroids, allow us to give a preliminary account of the electromagnetic fields for the spherical toroids via the integration of their sources and the Green function for resonant cavities and optimum-efficiency antennas
Disciplines: Física y astronomía
Keyword: Física de materia condensada,
Momento multipolar electromagnético,
Ruptura de simetría de esfera,
Momentos magnéticos y toroidales
Keyword: Condensed matter physics,
Electromagnetic multipole moment,
Symmetry breaking,
Magnetic and toroidal moments,
Debye formalism,
Green functions for resonant cavities and optimum-efficiency antennas
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