Self-dual electromagnetic fields
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Self-dual electromagnetic fields are shown to be maximally chiral. Monochromatic self-dual beams have electric and magnetic fields that are eigenstates of curl. The chiral density and chiral current of self-dual monochromatic beams are proportional to the energy and momentum densities. Their energy and momentum densities do not oscillate in time. Self-dual pulses based on an oscillatory solution of the wave equation lack the oscillations of non-self-dual pulses based on the same wave function. All of these properties could be significant in physical applications, but few self-dual fields seem to have been studied experimentally.
Author: John Lekner
Institution: Victoria University of Wellington
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4404943338