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hep-th2013★ 15 cited
Plane waves as tractor beams
Péter Forgács, Árpád Lukács, Tomasz Romańczukiewicz
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…
hep-th2008★ 43 cited
Negative radiation pressure exerted on kinks
Péter Forgács, Árpád Lukács, Tomasz Romańczukiewicz
The interaction of a kink and a monochromatic plane wave in one dimensional scalar field theories is studied. It is shown that in a large class of models the radiation pressure exe…