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Title: | Hidden momentum and the Abraham-Minkowski debate. |
Authors: | Saldanha, Pablo Lima Oliveira Filho, Juvenil Siqueira de |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Citation: | SALDANHA, P. L.; OLIVEIRA FILHO, J. S. de. Hidden momentum and the Abraham-Minkowski debate. Physical Review A, v. 95, p. 043804, nov./abr. 2017. Disponível em: <https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.043804>. Acesso em: 15 fev. 2019. |
Abstract: | We use an extended version of electrodynamics, which admits the existence of magnetic charges and currents, to discuss how different models for electric and magnetic dipoles do or do not carry hidden momentum under the influence of external electromagnetic fields. Based on that, we discuss how the models adopted for the electric and magnetic dipoles from the particles that compose a material medium influence the expression for the electromagnetic part of the light momentum in the medium.We show that Abraham expression is compatible with electric dipoles formed by electric charges and magnetic dipoles formed by magnetic charges, while Minkowski expression is compatible with electric dipoles formed by magnetic currents and magnetic dipoles formed by electric currents. The expression ε0E × B, on the other hand, is shown to be compatible with electric dipoles formed by electric charges and magnetic dipoles formed by electric currents, which are much more natural models. So this expression has an interesting interpretation in the Abraham-Minkowski debate about the momentum of light in a medium: It is the expression compatible with the nonexistence of magnetic charges. We also provide a simple justification of why Abraham and Minkowski momenta can be associated with the kinetic and canonical momentum of light, respectively. |
URI: | http://www.repositorio.ufop.br/handle/123456789/11488 |
metadata.dc.identifier.uri2: | https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.043804 |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.043804 |
ISSN: | 2469-9934 |
Appears in Collections: | DECEA - Artigos publicados em periódicos |
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