Transport theory is the key foundation of the theoretical design of metamaterials-metamaterial is artificial phase transition

Abstract

This is a revisit of my PhD thesis work is which I coined the term transport theory. In 1966. This is the first introduction of transport theory into condensed matter physics. Transport theory is today the key foundation of the theoretical design of materials. Since metamaterial is a new material, naturally it will fall under this category of work. Recently I discovered that metamaterial is in fact, artificial phase transition. Permeability, permittivity, effective bulk modulus, effective mass density are transport properties. The transport property also shows a singularity behavior at the critical point of phase transition in metamaterial same as that of the singularity behavior of transport property during condensation at phase transition. The successful fabrication of quantum metamaterial producing artificial superconductivity and metamaterial interpretation of high temperature superconductivity further confirms that metamaterial is artificial phase transition. Being artificial phase transition, one is able to control the degree of phase transition by tuning the resonance frequency of the transport properties.