Radiation from a dipole perpendicular to the interface between two planar semi-infinite magnetoelectric media



Título del documento: Radiation from a dipole perpendicular to the interface between two planar semi-infinite magnetoelectric media
Revista: Revista mexicana de física
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000460540
ISSN: 0035-001X
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Ciudad de México. México
Año:
Periodo: Nov-Dic
Volumen: 68
Número: 6
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, teórico
Resumen en inglés We consider two semi-infinite magnetoelectric media with constant dielectric permittivity separated by a planar interface, whose electromagnetic response is described by non-dynamical axion electrodynamics and investigate the radiation of a point-like electric dipole located perpendicularly to the interface. We start from the exact Green’s function for the electromagnetic potential, whose far-field approximation is obtained using a modified steepest descent approximation. We compute the angular distribution of the radiation and the total radiated power finding different interference patterns, depending on the relative position dipole-observer, and polarization mixing effects which are all absent in the standard dipole radiation. They are a manifestation of the magnetoelectric effect induced by axion electrodynamics. We illustrate our findings with some numerical estimations employing realistic media as well as some hypothetical choices in order to illuminate the effects of the magnetoelectric coupling which is usually very small
Disciplinas: Física y astronomía
Palabras clave: Física,
Efecto magnetoeléctrico,
Radiación dipolar,
Propagación de ondas electromagnéticas,
Física matemática
Keyword: Physics,
Mathematical physics,
Magnetoelectric effect,
Dipole radiation,
Electromagnetic wave propagation
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