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Chin. Phys. B, 2023, Vol. 32(4): 044202    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/acae7a
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Nonreciprocal negative refraction in a dense hot atomic medium

Hai Yi(易海)1,2, Hongjun Zhang(张红军)1,2,†, and Hui Sun(孙辉)1,2
1 School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China;
2 Xi'an Key Laboratory of Optical Information Manipulation and Augmentation, Xi'an 710119, China
Abstract  We investigate the electromagnetic properties of a four-level dense atomic gas medium with Doppler effect. It is shown that the relative permittivity and relative permeability of the medium can be negative simultaneously with low absorption in the same detuning interval on account of electromagnetically induced transparency. Furthermore, with the suitable parameters, the nonreciprocal negative refraction can be obtained due to the Doppler effect, and the nonreciprocity frequency band can be regulated by adjusting the temperature, the intensity of the control field and the atomic density in this hot atomic medium.
Keywords:  negative refraction      nonreciprocity      Doppler effect      atomic system  
Received:  01 November 2022      Revised:  18 December 2022      Accepted manuscript online:  27 December 2022
PACS:  42.25.Bs (Wave propagation, transmission and absorption)  
  43.28.Py (Interaction of fluid motion and sound, Doppler effect, and sound in flow ducts)  
  51.70.+f (Optical and dielectric properties)  
  78.20.Ci (Optical constants (including refractive index, complex dielectric constant, absorption, reflection and transmission coefficients, emissivity))  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61671279). The authors also thank the financial support from Xi'an Key Laboratory of Optical Information Manipulation and Augmentation (OMA).
Corresponding Authors:  Hongjun Zhang     E-mail:  zhhjun@snnu.edu.cn

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Hai Yi(易海), Hongjun Zhang(张红军), and Hui Sun(孙辉) Nonreciprocal negative refraction in a dense hot atomic medium 2023 Chin. Phys. B 32 044202

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