  Bianisotropics is conceived as a physical concept describing electromagnetic
media which possess intrinsic mechanisms of magnetoelectric coupling. We
propose the main idea of bianisotropics as a combination of two physical
notions: (a) the near-field manipulation and (b) chirality. From classical laws
these two notions are in an evident contradiction since manifestation of
chirality in electromagnetics is usually due to effects of the field
non-locality. In attempts to combine the field locality and chirality in media
properties, we come to non-classical aspects, which constitute a subject of a
macroscopic quantum mechanics analysis. This opens a new field of studies,
which we call as the problem of bianisotropic metamaterials (BMMs).
