Propagation speed of evanescent modes

A. Pablo L. Barbero, Hugo E. Hernández-Figueroa, and Erasmo Recami
Phys. Rev. E 62, 8628 – Published 1 December 2000
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Abstract

The group velocity of evanescent waves (in undersized waveguides, for instance) was theoretically predicted, and has been experimentally verified, to be superluminal (vg>c). By contrast, it is known that the precursor speed in vacuum cannot be larger than c. In this paper, by computer simulations based on Maxwell equations only, we show the existence of both phenomena. In other words, we verify the actual possibility of superluminal group velocities, without violating the so-called (naive) Einstein causality.

  • Received 23 July 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.62.8628

©2000 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

A. Pablo L. Barbero1,2, Hugo E. Hernández-Figueroa1,*, and Erasmo Recami3,4,†

  • 1DMO, FEEC, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
  • 2TET, CTC, Universidade Federal Fluminense, RJ, Brazil
  • 3CCS and DMO/FEEC, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brazil
  • 4Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università Statale di Bergamo, Dalmine, BG, ItalyINFN, Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy

  • *Email address: hugo@dmo.fee.unicamp.br
  • Email address: recami@mi.infn.it

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Vol. 62, Iss. 6 — December 2000

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