The enigma of optical momentum in a medium

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2009.0207MaRDI QIDQ3579094zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Stephen M. Barnett, Rodney Loudon

Publication date 5 August 2010

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2009.0207

zbMATH Keywords

quantum opticsPoynting vectorphoton momentumAbraham-Minkowski dilemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02)

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