Toroidal Multipole Moments in Classical Electrodynamics: An Analysis of their Emergence and Physical Significance (BestMasters) - Softcover

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Stefan Nanz studied physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and wrote his Master Thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Carsten Rockstuhl. There, he is now a PhD student and working on tailored disorder of scattering interfaces and photon management in solar cells.

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Stefan Nanz investigates the necessity for threemultipole families in classical electrodynamics. He shows that by imposingsymmetry and parity constraints, it is sufficient to deal with only twomultipole families. This implies that the toroidal multipole moments do notrepresent an independent multipole family, and they only emerge in the long-wavelength limit.

Contents

• Symmetry Considerations of Charge-Current Distributions
  
• Multipole Expansion of the Electromagnetic Potentials and Fields
  
• Conclusions for the Physical Significance of Toroidal Multipole Moments
  

Target Groups

• Researchers and students in the field of physics
  
• Practitioners in the field of optics and photonics
  

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Stefan Nanz studiedphysics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and wrote his Master Thesis in thegroup of Prof. Dr. Carsten Rockstuhl. There, he is now a PhD student andworking on tailored disorder of scattering interfaces and photon management insolar cells.