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    Acoustics. Optics. Condensed Matter Physics

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    With Certificate of Graduation for Doctorate Study

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    1 Optics;
    1 Condensed Matter Physics

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Electromagnetic stress at the boundary: Photon pressure or tension?

  • Time:2020-05-16
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  • Journal:

    Science advances

  • Abstract:

    It is well known that incident photons carrying momentum ℏk exert a positive photon pressure. But if light is impinging from a negative refractive medium in which ℏk is directed toward the source of radiation, should light exert a photon “tension” instead of a photon pressure? Using an ab initio method that takes the underlying microstructure of a material into account, we find that when an electromagnetic wave propagates from one material into another, the electromagnetic stress at the boundary is, in fact, indeterminate if only the macroscopic parameters are specified. Light can either pull…

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    Journal paper

  • Volume:

    2

  • Issue:

    3

  • Page Number:

    e1501485

  • Translation or Not:

    no

  • Links to published journals:

    https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.1501485

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