Interrelation between various types of optically induced forces

Torchigin, V.P.; Torchigin, A.V.

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2013.03.041

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“…In accordance with Mansuripur the total MFD in the medium is equal W 0 (n + 1/n)/2, unlike our MFD W 0 n. The difference is due to different approaches to calculation of total OIF in matter. This can be explained by the fact that the approach based on the Lorentz density force is incorrect [10][11][12]. Our matching the unambiguous thought and real experiment shows that the Abraham density force ought to be used rather than the Lorentz density force.…”

Section: Semi-infinite Dielectric With Antireflection Coatingmentioning

confidence: 78%

“…However, there are doubts that the approach based on the Lorentz force and the pressure determined in 2002 is correct. Despite the fact that such statements undermine the foundations of modern ideas, we were able to convince the reviewers of the correctness of our doubts and to publish papers where we show that the approach based on the Lorentz force is incorrect in the simplest situations where a magnitude of the optical pressure is known in advance [9][10][11][12].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 87%

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Radiation pressure on plane dielectric surfaces

Torchigin

2015

Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics

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Section: Semi-infinite Dielectric With Antireflection Coatingmentioning

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Radiation pressure on plane dielectric surfaces

Torchigin

2015

Optik - International Journal for Light and Electron Optics

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“…(3.26), is negligible or "almost" negligible because the time average of f D , defined in Eq. (3.23), is essentially zero due to the oscillating field [24,30,[44][45][46]. See also page 205 of Ref.…”

Section: A Formal Theory Of Energy and Momentummentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of axiomatic formal theory to the Abraham--Minkowski controversy

Crenshaw¹

2015

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We treat continuum electrodynamics as an axiomatic formal theory based on the macroscopic Maxwell-Minkowski equations applied to a thermodynamically closed system consisting of an antireflection-coated block of a simple linear dielectric material situated in free-space that is illuminated by a quasimonochromatic field. We prove that valid theorems of the formal theory of Maxwellian continuum electrodynamics are inconsistent with conservation laws for the energy and the momentum of an inviscid incoherent flow of non-interacting particles (photons) in the continuum limit (light field) in the absence of external forces, pressures, or constraints (unimpeded flow) through a continuous simple linear dielectric medium. That remains true even if we view Maxwellian continuum electrodynamics as a subsystem: If we add a material energy-momentum tensor to the electromagnetic energy-momentum tensor as a phenomenological resolution of the Abraham-Minkowski controversy (as required by the past and current scientific literature) then the total energy, the total linear momentum, and the total angular momentum are constant in time but the four-divergence of the total (electromagnetic plus material) energy-momentum tensor is self-inconsistent, violates Poynting's theorem, and violates spacetime conservation laws. We also show that demonstrably correct theorems of Maxwellian continuum electrodynamics are inconsistent with the extant (Laue) application of Einstein's special relativity to a dielectric medium. Obviously, the fundamental physical principles of Maxwell's electrodynamics, spacetime conservation laws, and Einstein's special relativity, which are intrinsic to the vacuum, are not affected. However, the extant theoretical treatments of macroscopic continuum electrodynamics, dielectric special relativity, and energy-momentum conservation in a simple linear dielectric, theories that are extrapolated (derived, but with various assumptions, limits, and approximations) from the fundamental vacuum theories, must be regarded as being mutually inconsistent for macroscopic fields in ponderable media. Having proven that the extant applications of fundamental physical principles to dielectric materials result in mutually inconsistent theories, we derive mutually consistent alternative theoretical treatments of electrodynamics, special relativity, and energy-momentum conservation in an isotropic, homogeneous, linear dielectric-filled, flat, non-Minkowski, continuous material spacetime. There is sufficient commonality with the classic macroscopic theories that the extensive theoretical and experimental work that is correctly described by Maxwellian continuum electrodynamics, spacetime conservation laws, and dielectric special relativity has a nearly equivalent formulation in the new theory. The more complex issues of the Abraham-Minkowski momentum controversy and the Rosen-Laue dielectric special relativity dilemma have robust resolutions in the new theory.

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“…Kemp calls this kind the Helmholtz force [9]. However this name is more suitable for internal OIF arising due to an inhomogeneity of the electrostriction pressure [21]. As a kind of force was known much earlier, we will call it the Maxwell-like force because Maxwell was the first who had studied it.…”

Section: A Physical Origin Of Pressures Arising At a Propagation Of Amentioning

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Resolution of the Age-Old Dilemma about a Magnitude of the Momentum of Light in Matter

Torchigin

2014

Physics Research International

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There are two competitive opinions about a magnitude of the momentum of light in matter. The Balazs thought experiment gives unambiguous theoretical evidence based only on laws of mechanics that the momentum of light in matter is smaller by n times than that of the same light in free space where n is the refractive index of the matter. On the other hand, there is other theoretical evidence confirmed by experimental investigation that the momentum of light in matter is greater by n times than that in free space. This ancient dilemma cannot be resolved till now. We show that the momentum density flux of light in matter is greater by n times than that in free space. In the same time we present an alternative interpretation of the Balazs thought experiment where two optical pressures arising in the regions of the matter where leading and trailing edges of the pulse are propagating are taken into account. This enables us to match contradictory results of mentioned experiments. Since the contradiction is overcome, the dilemma disappears.

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Interrelation between various types of optically induced forces

Cited by 20 publications

References 26 publications

Radiation pressure on plane dielectric surfaces

Radiation pressure on plane dielectric surfaces

Application of axiomatic formal theory to the Abraham--Minkowski controversy

Resolution of the Age-Old Dilemma about a Magnitude of the Momentum of Light in Matter

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