Local negative magnetic permeability and possibility of observation of breather excitations in magnetic metamaterials

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that one-dimensional magnetic metamaterials can support breather excitations due to negative magnetic permeability, and suggests their potential observability in specially designed left-handed metamaterials.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical model showing the existence of breather excitations in magnetic metamaterials with negative permeability and discusses their experimental observability.

Findings

Breather excitations can be excited by high-frequency magnetic fields.

Regions with negative magnetic permeability can support dynamic solitons.

Such systems can be realized as left-handed metamaterials transparent to electromagnetic waves.

Abstract

It is shown that the long-wave dynamics and magnetic properties of one-dimensional systems constructed of the inductively and capacitively coupled split-ring resonators are described by the regularized nonlinear dispersive Klein-Gordon equations. It is found that in such systems a highfrequency magnetic field excites dynamic solitons on a \glqq pedestal\grqq-stable breathers, oscillating in anti-phase with respect to the background of uniform oscillations, which means the existence of regions with a negative magnetic permeability in the system. If supplemented by a medium with negative permittivity, such a system forms a \glqq left-handed\grqq metamaterial in which the regions with the breather excitations are transparent to electromagnetic radiation. This makes it possible to observe them experimentally.