  The connections between the anti-shielding effect, negative absolute
temperature and superluminal light propagation in both the instantaneously
reversed electric field and the left-handed media are considered in the present
paper. The instantaneous inversion of the exterior electric field may cause the
electric dipoles into the state of negative absolute temperature and therefore
give rise to a negative effective mass term of electromagnetic field (i. e.,
the electromagnetic field propagating inside the negative-temperature medium
will acquire an imaginary rest mass), which is said to result in the potential
superluminality effect of light propagation in this anti-shielding dielectric.
In left-handed media, such phenomena may also arise.
