Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2007-10-02
Europhys. Lett. 84, 67005 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
5 pages, RevTeX4, changes: complete rewrite
Scientific paper
10.1209/0295-5075/81/67005
Starting from the Maxwell-Lorentz equations, Poynting's theorem is reconsidered. The energy flux vector is introduced as S_e=(E x B)/mu_0 instead of E x H, because only by this choice the energy dissipation can be related to the balance of the kinetic energy of the matter subsystem. Conservation of the total energy as the sum of kinetic and electromagnetic energy follows. In our discussion, media and their microscopic nature are represented exactly by their susceptibility functions, which do not necessarily have to be known. On this footing, it can be shown that energy conservation in the propagation of light through bounded media is ensured by Maxwell's boundary conditions alone, even for some frequently used approximations. This is demonstrated for approaches using additional boundary conditions and the dielectric approximation in detail, the latter of which suspected to violate energy conservation for decades.
Florian Matthias
Henneberger Klaus
Richter Felix
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