On the energy-momentum of light : an all optical view of the Abraham-Minkowski controversy
MacLeod, Alexander J. and Noble, Adam (2017) On the energy-momentum of light : an all optical view of the Abraham-Minkowski controversy. In: 2nd Conference on Extremely High Intensity Laser Physics, 2017-09-05 - 2017-09-08, Instituto Superior Tecnico.
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Abstract
The energy-momentum of light in a medium is known to have two conflicting descriptions, due to Abraham and Minkowski. In non-linear electrodynamics, a strong field can cause the vacuum to behave analogously to a dielectric material. We investigate the Abraham-Minkowski controversy in this context, and show that for non-linear electrodynamics in vacuum, the Minkowski description is the most natural.
| Author(s): | MacLeod, Alexander J. and Noble, Adam | Item type: | Conference or Workshop Item(Poster) |
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| ID code: | 63401 |
| Keywords: | energy-momentum of light, non-linear electrodynamics, vacuum, Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics |
| Subjects: | Science > Physics |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date deposited: | 27 Feb 2018 15:19 |
| Last modified: | 21 Jul 2019 00:39 |
| URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/63401 |
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