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Propagation of electromagnetic plane waves in some directions in gravitationally affected vacuum over limited ranges of spacetime can be such that the phase velocity vector casts a negative projection on the time-averaged Poynting vector.…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Tom G. Mackay

It is well understood that various alternatives are available within EM theory for the definitions of energy density, momentum transfer, EM stress-energy tensor, and so forth. Although the various options are all compatible with the basic…

General Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 H. E. Puthoff

A theory for analyzing the radiative and reactive energies for pulse radiators in free space is presented. With the proposed definition of reactive energies and radiative energies, power balance at arbitrarily chosen observation surfaces…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Gaobiao Xiao

We review optical phenomena associated with the internal energy redistribution which accompany propagation and transformations of monochromatic light fields in homogeneous media. The total energy flow (linear-momentum density, Poynting…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Aleksandr Bekshaev , Konstantin Bliokh , Marat Soskin

We study the evolution of the kinetic energy (or gradient norm) of an incident linearly polarized monochromatic wave propagating in correlated random media. We explore the optical flux transverse to the mean Poynting flux at the…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-02 Yuchen Ke , Nandini Bhattacharya , Fabian Maucher

Using a quantum field theoretic description of the photon it is shown that, as intuitively expected but not before theoretically proven, the vector potential of a photon has a likely amplitude associated with a discrete frequency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Anthony Rizzi

The dynamics of a standing shock front in a Poynting-flux dominated relativistic flow is investigated by using a one-dimensional, relativistic, two-fluid simulation. An upstream flow containing a circularly polarized, sinusoidal magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Takanobu Amano , John G. Kirk

This paper presents the calculation of the electrical power transported by the electromagnetic fields of two parallel wires carrying opposite DC currents. The Poynting vector is developed in bipolar coordinates and symbolically integrated…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Marc Boulé

The availability of vector magnetogram sequences with sufficient accuracy and cadence to estimate the time derivative of the magnetic field allows us to use Faraday's law to find an approximate solution for the electric field in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 George H. Fisher , Brian T. Welsch , William P. Abbett

The core theorem on which the above paper is centred - that a perfectly conducting body of revolution absorbs no angular momentum from an axisymmetric electromagnetic wave field - is in fact a special case of a more general result in…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timo A. Nieminen

The gravitational Poynting vector provides a mechanism for the transfer of gravitational energy to a system of falling objects. In the following we will show that the gravitational poynting vector together with the gravitational Larmor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. de Matos , M. Tajmar

In this note, we propose an exegesis of the Maxwell equations for electromagnetism. We begin with an analogy between the homogeneous Maxwell equations and the equations needed to describe the vorticity field of an incompressible inviscid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Haralambos Marmanis

We show that the formal asymptotic limit for all rotating polytropic axisymmetric perfect MHD flows is a kinetic energy dominated wind which collimates to paraboloids around the symmetry axis. We reach this result by showing that another, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Heyvaerts , C. Norman

In electromagnetism, the concept of Poynting vector as measured by an observer is well known. A mathematical analogue in general relativity is the super-Poynting vector of the Weyl tensor. Observers for which the (super-)Poynting vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-20 Lode Wylleman , L. Filipe O. Costa , José Natário

Maxwell's equations and the equations governing charged particle dynamics are presented for a rotating coordinate system with the global time coordinate of an observer on the rotational axis. Special care is taken in defining the relevant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 Paul N. Arendt,

The coefficients defining the mean electromotive force in a Galloway-Proctor flow are determined. This flow shows a two-dimensional pattern and is helical. The pattern wobbles in its plane. Apart from one exception a circular motion of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Karl-Heinz Rädler , Axel Brandenburg

This paper inspects more closely the problem of the momentum and energy of a bound (non-radiating) electromagnetic (EM) field. It has been shown that for an isolated system of non-relativistic mechanically free charged particles a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander L. Kholmetskii

Normalizing flows have received a great deal of recent attention as they allow flexible generative modeling as well as easy likelihood computation. While a wide variety of flow models have been proposed, there is little formal understanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Zhifeng Kong , Kamalika Chaudhuri

We study in detail the electromagnetic fields and the Poynting flux in the case of a uniformly accelerated charge, in order to examine whether such a charge does `emit' radiation, especially in view of the widely accepted fact that there is…

General Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Ashok K. Singal

This paper uses an alternative approach to study the monochromatic plane wave propagation within dielectric and conductor linear media of plane-parallel-faces. This approach introduces the time-averaged Poynting vector modulus as field…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Lencina , Beatriz Ruiz , Pablo Vaveliuk