Time Circular Birefringence in Time-Dependent Magnetoelectric Media

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 5; no. 1; p. 13673
• Main Authors: Zhang, Ruo-Yang, Zhai, Yan-Wang, Lin, Shi-Rong, Zhao, Qing, Wen, Weijia, Ge, Mo-Lin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.09.2015; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/301/119/997; 639/624/400/1101; Birefringence; Humanities and Social Sciences; Interfaces; Light; Magnetic fields; Media; multidisciplinary; Optics; Physics; Polarization; Refraction; Science; Symmetry

Light traveling in time-dependent media has many extraordinary properties which can be utilized to convert frequency, achieve temporal cloaking and simulate cosmological phenomena. In this paper, we focus on time-dependent axion-type magnetoelectric (ME) media and prove that light in these media alw...