Comment on 'Revisiting the Balazs thought experiment in the presence of loss: electromagnetic-pulse-induced displacement of a positive-index slab having arbitrary complex permittivity and permeability'

摘要

The article Appl. Phys. A 105,267-281 (2011) by Chau and Lezec contains a serious error in the citation of prior art. The force density which was shown to be incorrect cannot be attributed to the work of Kemp et al., and the correct time-domain force equation was previously published in one of the misrepresented works. Furthermore, we show that unreferenced prior art weakens the overall contribution of the work.