Quantum Vacuum Contribution to the Momentum of Dielectric Media

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 204041-204044

  Feigel, A ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

MOMENTUM TRANSFER; RELATIVISTIC FORMALISM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 10944253360     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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