| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 43, Number 1, July I 1998
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 13 - 16 | |
| Section | Classical areas of phenomenology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1998-00311-6 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
The permittivity in the Huttner-Barnett theory of QED in dielectrics
Instituto de Física “Gleb Wataghin”,
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP - 13083-970, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Received:
5
February
1998
Accepted:
15
May
1998
Huttner and Barnett's interpretation of the function they call
as the dielectric permittivity is crucial in
practical applications of their theory. We show explicitly that 
is the permittivity but that their microscopic model can only
describe certain types of permittivity.
PACS: 42.50.-p – Quantum optics / 03.70.+k – Theory of quantized fields
© EDP Sciences, 1998
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