Superluminality and amplifiers

Electronic tuned amplifiers exhibit seemingly noncausal behaviors such as negative group delays and superluminal group velocities. This is demonstrated with a simple tuned amplifier circuit which is analogous to the Lorentz model of the inverted atom. There is no contradiction with causality, rather it is shown that these behaviors are required by Bode's law, itself a consequence of causality.

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