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Veselago: electrodynamics with simultaneously negative permittivity and permeability

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Electromagnetism · THEORY

Reference score170,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Analyzed electromagnetic propagation when electric permittivity and magnetic permeability are simultaneously negative, deriving reversed relations among wave, energy-flow and refraction directions.

Scientific scope

The record targets the 1967 Russian paper and its 1968 English translation as one work. Later metamaterial designs, experimental negative refraction, perfect-lens proposals and device applications remain separate.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record targets the 1967 Russian paper and its 1968 English translation as one work. Later metamaterial designs, experimental negative refraction, perfect-lens proposals and device applications remain separate.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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