Forgács, Péter and Lukács, Árpád László and Romanczukiewicz, T. (2013) Plane waves as tractor beams. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 88 (12). ISSN 2470-0010
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Abstract
It is shown that in a large class of systems plane waves can act as tractor beams: i.e., an incident plane wave can exert a pulling force on the scatterer. The underlying physical mechanism for the pulling force is due to the sufficiently strong scattering of the incoming wave into another mode having a larger wave number, in which case excess momentum is created behind the scatterer. Such a tractor beam or negative radiation pressure effect arises naturally in systems where the coupling between the scattering channels is due to Aharonov–Bohm (AB) gauge potentials.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science / természettudomány > QC Physics / fizika |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2024 07:57 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2024 07:57 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/202458 |
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