On active drains and causality
Abstract
The concept of an active drain has been used recently to provide an optical element which manages to perfectly sink incoming electromagnetic radiation. Here I show that without prior knowledge of the incoming signal, an element attempting respond as an active localized drain cannot succeed.
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