posted on 2023-11-30, 05:40authored byHu Jinbing, Zhuang Songlin, Guo Hanming
The Abraham momentum of electromagnetic field represents the decomposition property into real-valued orbital and spin contributions. However, we found that the orbital and spin momenta of evanescent electromagnetic fields are inherently complex. Consequently, the decomposition of Abraham momentum was reexamined and the exact expressions of orbital and spin momenta were obtained, which are applicable to both propagating and evanescent electromagnetic fields. Furthermore, we also justified the newly-derived decomposition of Abraham momentum for lossy media, which was further demonstrated by a concrete example of surface polariton of metal. In addition, by means of the complex orbital momentum of surface polariton the complex group velocity was tentatively put forward with its real part representing the energy flux velocity and its imaginary part denoting the osmotic velocity of energy penetrating the corresponding media
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