Comment on "Existence and design of trans-vacuum-speed metamaterials".
It is shown that metamaterials considered by Phys. Rev. E 68, 026612 (2003)]] as media that support trans-vacuum-speed pulses must exhibit instantaneous response. Thus, they are not physically realizable as linear passive materials.
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