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The tellegen medium is “a Boojum, you see”

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The Tellegen medium is macroscopically indistinguishable from an isotropic dielectric-magnetic medium. That may be why the Tellegen medium has never been observed.

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  1. Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, 16802-140, University Park, PA, USA

    Akhlesh Lakhtakia

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Lakhtakia, A. The tellegen medium is “a Boojum, you see”. Int J Infrared Milli Waves 15, 1625–1630 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096889

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