On the Drude‐Born‐Fedorov Model for Chiral Electromagnetic Media
Rainer H. Picard, Henrik Freymond · PAMM · 2012
Abstract Electro‐magnetic wave propagation in more complex linear materials such as bi‐anisotropic media have come to a considerable attention within the last fifteen to twenty years. The Drude‐Born‐Fedorov model has been extensively studied mostly in the time‐harmonic case as a model for chiral media. In the physically relevant time‐dependent case the record is much less convincing. In this paper we focus on this case and analyze the Drude‐Born‐Fedorov model in the light of recently developed Hilbert space approach to evolutionary problems. The solution theory will be developed in the framework of extrapolation spaces (Sobolev lattices). (© 2012 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)