Canonical quantization of electromagnetic field in the presence of absorbing bi-anisotropic multilayer magnetodielectric media

Abstract

A bi-anisotropic magnetodielectric medium is modeled by two independent set of three dimensional harmonic oscillators. A fully canonical quantization of electromagnetic field is demonstrated in the presence of a bi-anisotropic magnetodielectric medium. The electric and magnetic polarization fields of the medium are obtained in terms of the dynamical variable modeling the medium. The Heisenberg equations of the system are solved for a multilayer bi-anisotropic magnetodielectric medium. © 2015 EDP Sciences, SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.