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A Micromorphic Electromagnetic Theory James D. Lee, Youping Chen and Azim Eskandarian School of Engineering and Applied Science The George Washington University 801 22nd street, NW, Academic Center Washington, DC 20052 Email: jdlee@gwu.edu Fax: 202-994-0238 Abstract This work is concerned with the determination of both macroscopic and microscopic deformations, motions, stresses, as well as electromagnetic fields developed in the material body due to external loads of thermal, mechanical, and electromagnetic origins. The balance laws of mass, microinertia, linear momentum, moment of momentum, energy, and entropy for microcontinuum are integrated with the Maxwell’s equations. The constitutive theory is constructed. The finite element formulation of micromorphic electromagnetic physics is also presented. The physical meanings of various terms in the constitutive equations are discussed. Keyword: micromorphic, electromagnetic, balance laws, constitutive relation, finite element formulation. 1 Introduction Optical phonon branches exist in all crystals that have more than one atom per primitive unit cell. Under an electromagnetic field it is the optical modes that are excited. Optics is a phenomenon that necessitates the presence of an electromagnetic field. While classical continuum theory is the long acoustic wave limit, lattice dynamics analysis has shown that micromorphic theory yields phonon dispersion relation similar to those from atomistic calculations and experimental measurements (Chen et al [2002a]). It provides up to 12 phonon dispersion relations, including 3 acoustic and 9 optical branches. The optical phonons in micromorphic theory describe the internal displacement patterns within the microstructure of material particles in consistent with the internal atomic displacements in the optical modes. The physics of mechanical and electromagnetic coupling is hence related to the optical vibrations, and the continuum description of electrodynamics natural