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APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
卷 9, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app9050828
关键词
helicity; chirality; orbital angular momentum; dual symmetry; light-matter interactions; bi-isotropic media
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资金
- Royal Society [RP/EA/180010, RP/150122]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/N509668/1]
We consider the helicity and chirality of the free electromagnetic field, and advocate the former as a means of characterising the interaction of chiral light with matter. This is in view of the intuitive quantum form of the helicity density operator, and of the dual symmetry transformation generated by its conservation. We go on to review the form of the helicity density and its associated continuity equation in free space, in the presence of local currents and charges, and upon interaction with bulk media, leading to characterisation of both microscopic and macroscopic sources of helicity.
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