Optics: Momentum in an uncertain light
Abstract
How much momentum does light transfer to a material through which it passes? This is a surprisingly opaque matter, contested for almost a century, that is still the object of theory and experimentation.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- December 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1038/444823a
- Bibcode:
- 2006Natur.444..823L