Irregular spin angular momentum transfer from light to small birefringent particles

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Rothmayer, M ^a   Tierney, D ^a   Frins, E ^b   Dultz, W ^c   Schmitzer, H ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA   (Uruguay)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SPEED; BIREFRINGENT PLATES; DISK-SHAPED PARTICLES; EQUATION OF MOTION; LIGHT BEAM; OPTICAL RETARDERS; OPTICAL TRAP; PERYLENES; POINCARE; POLARIZED LIGHT; QUANTUM PHYSICS; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SELF-ADJUSTING; SMALL CRYSTALS; SMALL PARTICLES; SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM; SPIN ANGULAR MOMENTUM TRANSFER; TIME DEPENDENT;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BIREFRINGENCE; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MERCURY (METAL); MOMENTUM TRANSFER; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

LIGHT;

EID: 70349906486     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043801     Document Type: Article

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