Quantum mechanics compatible Maxwell's stress tensor (presentation video)

Michael Mazilu

doi:10.1117/12.2063942

13 November 2014 Quantum mechanics compatible Maxwell's stress tensor (presentation video)

Michael Mazilu

Proceedings Volume 9164, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI; 916408 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2063942
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

There are many ways to calculate the optical forces acting on scattering particles such as Maxwell’s stress tensor, Lorentz forces, gradient and scattering forces, Lorenz-Mie formalism, T-matrix. All these approaches use the electromagnetic field and define the amount of linear momentum transferred to the scattering particles. The resulting momentum transferred is proportional to the intensity of the incident fields, however, the single photon momentum (hbar k) does not naturally appear in these classical expressions. In this paper, we discuss an alternative Maxwell’s stress tensor based formalism that renders the classical electromagnetic field momentum compatible to the quantum mechanical one.

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Michael Mazilu "Quantum mechanics compatible Maxwell's stress tensor (presentation video)", Proc. SPIE 9164, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XI, 916408 (13 November 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2063942

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