Extraordinary momentum and spin in evanescent waves

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bliokh, Konstantin Y ^a,b   Bekshaev, Aleksandr Y ^c,d   Nori, Franco ^c,e,f  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b A USIKOV INSTITUTE OF RADIO PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS   (Ukraine)

^c RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^d ODESSA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOMENTUM; OPTICAL PROPERTY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; VECTOR; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVE SPECTRUM;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; EVANESCENT WAVE; LIGHT; ORTHOGONAL ROTATION; POLARIZATION; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; KINETICS; PHOTON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS;

EID: 84896787686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4300     Document Type: Article

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