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.

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    MacLeod, Alexander J. and Noble, Adam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8181-7076;
    • Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Poster)
      ID code:63401
      Dates:
      Date
      Event
      5 September 2017
      Published
      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:22 Apr 2021 00:29
      URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/63401
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