Pseudo-hermiticity and electromagnetic wave propagation: The case of anisotropic and lossy media

DOI10.1016/j.physleta.2010.04.008zbMath1237.78011arXiv1004.1904OpenAlexW2046957400MaRDI QIDQ415051

Giuseppe Scolarici, Ali Mostafazadeh

Publication date: 11 May 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1904

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetic wave propagationanisotropic mediaactive mediapseudo-Hermitian operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12)

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