Group Representation of Relativistic Quantum Crystal Optics |
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Authors: | A G Khatkevich L A Khatkevich |
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Institution: | (1) B. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 60 F. Skorina Ave., Minsk, 220072, Belarus;(2) Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus |
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Abstract: | A group representation of radiation propagation in an anisotropic medium is developed. The system of wave equations for electromagnetic potentials, obtained from the Maxwell equations with account for the constitutive equations, has been factorized. It is shown that the linear differential operator of the factorized system is orthogonal in transparent crystals and unitary in gyrotropic ones and is represented through the momentum operator. On the basis of the commutation relations for the components of this operator, the eigenvalue problem has been solved and the expression for the change in the radiant energy in the crystal in the form of spherical waves has been obtained. The dependences of the ray and phase velocities and the polarization vectors of waves on the birefringence anisotropy and gyrotropy as well as on the angular momentum, displacement current, and bound charge determining them have been analyzed. It has been established that in the general case of gyrotropic crystals where the nonreciprocity phenomenon takes place and in magnetoelectrics Maxwell equations are represented in a form similar to the Dirac equations and the electromagnetic radiation is correctly described by means of bispinors and is quantized as fermions. |
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Keywords: | magnetic dielectric gyrotropic crystal magnetoelectric velocities and polarization of waves orthogonal and unitary transformations spinors |
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