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April 29, 2016

Physicists detect the enigmatic spin momentum of light
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 29, 2016
Ever since Kepler's observation in the 17th century that sunlight is one of the reasons that the tails of comets to always face away from the sun, it has been understood that light exerts pressure in the direction it propagates. Radiation pressure is produced by the momentum carried by light, and it plays a crucial role in a variety of systems, from atomic to astronomical scales. In a recent theoretical paper (Extraordinary momentum and spin in evanescent waves Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Aleksandr Y. B ... read more

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