On deriving the Maxwell stress tensor method for calculating the optical force and torque on an object in harmonic electromagnetic fields

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/aa6e1dzbMath1374.78019OpenAlexW2606644939MaRDI QIDQ4591417

Qian Ye, Haoze Lin

Publication date: 15 November 2017

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aa6e1d

zbMATH Keywords

divergence theoremMaxwell stress tensoroptical forceoptical torque

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Maxwell equations (35Q61)

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