Breaking of Energy Conservation Law: Creating and Destroying of Energy by Subwavelength Nanosystems

Abstract

The extra energy, negative energy and annihilation of energy by the subwavelength conservative systems that have a wave nature of light or matter (quantum) objects are predicted. The creating and destroying of energy break the energy conservation law in any subwavelength physical system. The paradoxical phenomenon is demonstrated in the context of extraordinary transmission of light and matter through subwavelength apertures [T.W. Ebbesen et al., Nature (London) 391, 667 (1998) and E. Moreno et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 170406 (2005)].

resubmitted to PRL, Dec. 15, 2006