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The Röntgen Interaction and the ‘Resolution of the Abraham—Minkowski Dilemma’

Authors: Andrew T. Hamilton

The Röntgen interaction between a point electric dipole and the electromagnetic field does not carry over to a continuous medium that is polarized. Consequently, the kinetic momentum density of light in a medium is not, as Barnett contends in his ‘Resolution of the Abraham—Minkowski Dilemma’, the Abraham form (although the canonical momentum density is the Minkowski form). As a result, the resolution is flawed, albeit not fatally.

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