On the propagation of light in media with higher multipole densities

D. Adu-Gyamfi and B.U. Felderhof

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1975, vol. 81, issue 2, 295-310

Abstract: The theory of propagation of light through a medium of molecules with induced multipole moments of arbitrary order is studied. Positional and orientational correlations between molecules are neglected. A central result is the generalization of Lorentz's expression for the average local field acting on a molecule to a medium with higher multipole densities of arbitrary spatial variation. This allows one to avoid the Ewald-Oseen extinction theorem in the description of the mutual interference of secondary waves. The theory of optical activity is reformulated with the aid of a local-field tensor.

Date: 1975
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(75)90069-2

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