Shavkat Nizamov wrote:
> Surprisingly, some times the call of 
> field_energy_in_box(Ey, self.vol.surroundings())
> results in negative values. I wonder, what does this mean ?

I suspect a non-optimal calculation of energy, see e.g. 

    Power loss and electromagnetic energy density
                         in a dispersive metamaterial medium
    Phys. Rev. E 80, 046601 (2009)
    Pi-Gang Luan

    http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.046601 

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