Break of JC for Dec holidays

Dear all,

It is almost the end of the year and thanks for the good efforts of participating in this journal club in the past few months. Let's take a break and resume next year!

Cheers,
Shan

An interesting paper about -ive refractive index

Lately, we have been discussing about the so called negative refractive index materials (Meta Materials!), an example of which is a super-lens. I found this paper in the Arxiv web site, that negates the whole idea of -ive refraction. Some of you might find it interesting.
Cheers
Shakil

http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0605v1

"Correct Definition of the Poynting Vector in Electrically and Magnetically Polarizable Medium Reveals that Negative Refraction is Impossible"

Author: V. A. Markel

journal club 29 Nov 2007

Hi all,

For our journal club this thursday (29/11 10.30am pantry),
let's have a discussion on the attached paper, which is related to the other paper I chose the last time.

Thanks,
Wai Teng