Light: Science & Applications (Jan 2023)

Interrogating imaginary optical force by the complex Maxwell stress tensor theorem

  • Jinwei Zeng,
  • Jian Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-022-01049-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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Abstract The complex Maxwell stress tensor theorem has been developed to relate the imaginary optical force, reactive strength of canonical momentum and total optical force of a nanoparticle, which is essential to perfect optical force efficiency.