Plane wave in an anisotropic dielectric

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Plane wave in an anisotropic dielectric by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
For , , and a plane wave with electric polarization , the source-free Maxwell equations imply
If is an eigenvector of , then , the dispersion relation is , and the Poynting vector is parallel to .

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