Macroscopic quantum electrodynamics and duality

Details Macroscopic quantum electrodynamics and duality Macroscopic quantum electrodynamics and duality

2008-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/0806.2211v2

Physical Review Letters 102 (14) 140404 (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, minor corrections

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.140404

We discuss under what conditions the duality between electric and magnetic fields is a valid symmetry of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. It is shown that Maxwell's equations in the absence of free charges satisfy duality invariance on an operator level, whereas this is not true for Lorentz forces and atom--field couplings in general. We prove that derived quantities like Casimir forces, local-field corrected decay rates as well as van-der-Waals potentials are invariant with respect to a global exchange of electric and magnetic quantities. This exact symmetry can be used to deduce the physics of new configurations on the basis of already established ones.

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