The Uniqueness Theorem for Nonlocal Hydrodynamic Media
arXiv:2308.15947 · doi:10.1109/TAP.2024.3487016
Abstract
We investigate a fundamental electromagnetic theorem, namely the uniqueness theorem, in the context of nonlocal electromagnetics, as simulated by a popular semiclassical model, the Hydrodynamic Drude Model (HDM) and extensions thereof such as the Generalized Nonlocal Optical Response (GNOR). The derivations and proofs presented here give a theoretical foundation to the use of the Additional Boundary Conditions (ABCs), whose necessity is recognized and underlined in virtually all implementations and applications of HDM. Our proofs follow a mathematically relaxed style, borrowing from the literature of established electromagnetics textbooks that study the matter from an engineering perspective. Through this simpler route we deduce clear and intuitive material-response requirements for uniqueness to hold, while using a familiar parlance in a topic that is mostly studied through a physics perspective. Two numerical examples that examine the problem from either a semianalytical or a purely numerical viewpoint support our findings.
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