Comment on "Analysis of recent interpretations of the Abraham-Minkowski problem"

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dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorPartanen, Mikko
dc.contributor.authorTulkki, Jukka
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-16T07:06:51Z
dc.date.available2019-08-16T07:06:51Z
dc.date.issued2019-07-16
dc.description.abstractIn a recent paper [I. Brevik, Phys. Rev. A 98, 043847 (2018)], Brevik analyzed the experiment by Kundu et al. [A. Kundu et al., Sci. Rep. 7, 42538 (2017)] reporting deformation of a graphene oxide (GO) film after it has been irradiated by a laser beam. The two-dimensional atomic force microscope (AFM) line scanning of the deformation of the GO film after switching off the laser beam takes by far too much time for any elastic changes to remain in the AFM scans. Thus, the changes in the GO film are irreversible and the optoelastic model used by Brevik is not applicable. The rough estimates of the kinetic energy and displacement of atoms by the optical force of a light pulse calculated by Brevik are correct, but in making a comparison with the corresponding high-precision results for the kinetic energy and displacement of atoms in our work [M. Partanen et al., Phys. Rev. A 95, 063850 (2017)], the kinetic energy of atoms is confused with their rest energy. The atoms and their masses are displaced forward by the field and their displaced rest energies give rise to an energy flux. The difference of arguments between ours and Brevik's culminates on the question whether the flux of rest energy caused by the displacement of the medium moving with light should be included in the total energy flux. We also show that the four-divergence of the stress-energy-momentum tensor of the mass polariton theory of light is zero.en
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dc.identifier.citationPartanen , M & Tulkki , J 2019 , ' Comment on "Analysis of recent interpretations of the Abraham-Minkowski problem" ' , Physical Review A , vol. 100 , no. 1 , 017801 , pp. 1-5 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.017801en
dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevA.100.017801
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dc.publisherAmerican Physical Society
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dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 100, issue 1en
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dc.titleComment on "Analysis of recent interpretations of the Abraham-Minkowski problem"en
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