Electromagnetically induced left-handedness in a dense gas of three-level atoms
Date
2004Source Title
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Print ISSN
1050-2947
Publisher
The American Physical Society
Volume
70
Issue
5
Pages
053806-1 - 053806-7
Language
English
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Abstract
Ways in which a three-level system can be used to change the frequency-dependent magnetic permeability of an atomic gas were discussed. The resulting macroscopic electrodynamics was also discussed. The two levels were separated at optical frequencies while having a nonvanishing magnetic dipole matrix element. It was found that such level splittings require large external magnetic fields.
Keywords
Computation theoryElectric fields
Electrodynamics
Electromagnetism
Frequencies
Magnetic permeability
Refractive index
Vectors
Dipole moments
Free space
Photonic crystals
Split ring resonators
Quantum theory