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Chirality in the Maxwell equations by the dipole approximation. (English) Zbl 0933.78002

The authors show how chiral media may be realized by embedding chiral objects such as helices in an isotropic medium. They show how the Drude-Born-Fedorov constitutive relations may be derived as a limiting process from Maxwell’s equations with a collection of randomly oriented helical conductors each being modelled by a dipole.

MSC:

78A45 Diffraction, scattering
35Q60 PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory
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