Negative index materials and their applications: recent mathematics progress. (English) Zbl 1371.35036
Summary: Negative index materials are artificial structures whose refractive index has negative value over some frequency range. These materials were first investigated theoretically by Veselago in 1946 and were confirmed experimentally by Shelby, Smith, and Schultz in 2001. Mathematically, the study of negative index materials faces two difficulties. Firstly, the equations describing the phenomenon have sign changing coefficients, hence the ellipticity and the compactness are lost in general. Secondly, the localized resonance, i.e., the field explodes in some regions and remains bounded in some others as the loss goes to 0, might appear. In this survey, the author discusses recent mathematics progress in understanding properties of negative index materials and their applications. The topics are reflecting complementary media, superlensing and cloaking by using complementary media, cloaking a source via anomalous localized resonance, the limiting absorption principle and the well-posedness of the
Helmholtz equation with sign changing coefficients.
MSC:
| 35J05 | Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation |
| 35B34 | Resonance in context of PDEs |
| 35B35 | Stability in context of PDEs |
| 35B40 | Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs |
| 78A25 | Electromagnetic theory (general) |
| 35-02 | Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations |
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