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In both the equations for matter and light wave propagation, the momentum of the electromagnetic fields Pe reflects the relevant em interaction. As a review of some applications of wave propagation properties, an optical experiment which…

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Recent theoretical and experimental studies revealed spatiotemporal photonic, and acoustic, vortex beams in open space. The spatiotemporal vortex beams carry orbital angular momentum perpendicular to the wave propagation direction. Here, we…

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In this paper, a novel approach for resolution of the Abraham-Minkowski debate is proposed, in which the principle of relativity is used to uniquely determine the light momentum formulation for a plane wave in a moving non-dispersive…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-02 Changbiao Wang

Using acoustic evanescent Bessel beam is analyzed the fundamental properties for the spin and orbital angular momentum. The calculation shows that the transversal spin, the canonical momentum, and the orbital angular momentum are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Irving Rondon

It has been known for a long time that light carries both linear and angular momenta parallel to the direction of propagation. However, only recently it has been pointed out that beams of light, under certain conditions, may exhibit a…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-23 Andrea Aiello , Peter Banzer

We present arguments in favor of the proposition that the momentum of light inside a transparent dielectric medium is the arithmetic average of the Minkowski and Abraham momenta. Using the Lorentz transformation of the fields (and of the…

Optics · Physics 2012-07-27 Masud Mansuripur

Hybrid quantum systems exhibiting coupled optical, spin, and mechanical degrees of freedom can serve as a platform for sensing, or as a bus to mediate interactions between qubits with disparate energy scales. These systems are also creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Pablo R. Zangara , Alexander Wood , Marcus W. Doherty , Carlos. A. Meriles

We report on the continuity equations for linear momentum and energy associated to a recently introduced electromagnetic formulation based on classical dipolar sources [Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138, 1034 (2023)]. When connected to the…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-10 B. Anghinoni , M. Partanen , N. G. C. Astrath

Electromagnetic waves carry energy as well as linear and angular momenta. When a light pulse is reflected from, transmitted through, or absorbed by a material medium, energy and momentum (both linear and angular) are generally exchanged,…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-12 Masud Mansuripur

We present a general theory of spin-to-orbital angular momentum (AM) conversion of light in focusing, scattering, and imaging optical systems. Our theory employs universal geometric transformations of nonparaxial optical fields in such…

We investigate the radiation of optical angular momentum by a dipole gas under uniform magnetic field with an unpolarized source at its center. Conservation of angular momentum implies that the radiation of angular momentum results in a…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-03 R. Le Fournis , B. A. Van Tiggelen

We study the energy and momentum of the surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) excited in a symmetric 3-layer "insulator-metal-insulator" structure, which is known to support the symmetric (S) mode with the negative group velocity as well as the…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-30 A. Y. Bekshaev , O. A. Angelsky

Time-varying media break temporal symmetries while preserving spatial symmetries intact. Thus, it represents an excellent conceptual framework to investigate the fundamental implications of Noether's theorem for the electromagnetic field.…

We derive exact expressions, in the form of Fourier integrals over the (k,w) domain, for the energy, momentum, and angular momentum of a light pulse propagating in free space. The angular momentum is seen to split naturally into two parts.…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-29 Masud Mansuripur

The evolution of an entangled photon state propagating through a turbulent atmosphere is formulated in terms of a set of coupled first order differential equations, by using an infinitesimal propagation approach. The orbital angular…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-29 Filippus S. Roux

A circularly polarized electromagnetic plane wave carries an electric field that rotates clockwise or counterclockwise around the propagation direction of the wave. According to the handedness of this rotation, its \emph{longitudinal} spin…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-03 Andrea Aiello , Peter Banzer

We present a classical linear response theory for a magneto-dielectric material and determine the polariton dispersion relations. The electromagnetic field fluctuation spectra are obtained and polariton sum rules for their optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-19 Stephen M. Barnett , Rodney Loudon

Quantum theory of surface plasmons is very important for studying the interactions between light and different metal nanostructures in nanoplasmonics. In this work, using the canonical quantization method, the SPPs on nanowires and their…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-17 Guodong Zhu , Yangzhe Guo , Bin Dong , Yurui Fang

The orbital angular momentum and radial momentum both describe the transverse momentum of a light field. Efficient discriminating and sorting the two kinds of momentum lies at the heart of further application. Here, we propose a…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Yuan Li , Ye Xing , Wuhong Zhang , Lixiang Chen

Traditionally, the angular momentum of light is calculated for "bullet-like" electromagnetic wave packets, although in actual optical experiments "pencil-like" beams of light are more commonly used. The fact that a wave packet is bounded…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-14 Marco Ornigotti , Andrea Aiello