Photon Mass and New Experimental Results on Longitudinal Displacements of Laser Beams near Total Reflection
- 10 April 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 28 (15) , 1001-1004
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.28.1001
Abstract
Recent observations by Imbert to test predictions and observations of Goos and Hänchen by reflecting a laser beam near the total reflection angle contradicts classical and quantum predictions for the longitudinal displacements of linearly polarized incident plane waves. They can be simply interpreted as a Stern-Gehrlach type of measurement of the photon spin, provided the photon has a nonzero rest mass.Keywords
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