Chiral and bi-anisotropic mixtures
This chapter discusses a very special type of materials: such materials which become electrically excited by magnetic field, and vice versa. These materials are called bi-anisotropic media. A special case of bi-anisotropic media is the class of bi-isotropic media, such materials which are magnetoelectric but not sensitive to field direction. In general, bi-anisotropy could be understood to mean that the electric polarisation is caused by any other type of excitation, in addition to the ordinary electrically caused polarisation component, but commonly adopted use of the term “bi-anisotropy” restricts the cross-polarisation to magnetoelectric effects.
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