Electromagnetic waves in metamаterials placed in the magnetic field

In this paper the results of theoretical investigations of optical metamaterials placed in an uniform magnetic field are presented. The equations of electromagnetic dispersion curves for metamaterials have been obtained taking into account interaction between electromagnetic emission and axion waves having pseudoscalar polarization. It is shown that there is a band-gap having the spectral width compared with the axion rest energy in the spectral region corresponding to the optical negative index. Near the boundaries of photon-axion zone an abnormal decrease in group velocity of electromagnetic and axion waves improving the photon-axion conversion is predicted.

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