%0 Generic %1 strait2018revisiting %A Strait, Jared H. %A Holland, Glenn %A Zhu, Wenqi %A Zhang, Cheng %A Ilic, Bojan R. %A Agrawal, Amit %A Pacifici, Domenico %A Lezec, Henri J. %D 2018 %K condmatter %T Revisiting the Photon-Drag Effect in Metal Films %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01673 %X The photon-drag effect, the rectified current in a medium induced by conservation of momentum of absorbed or redirected light, is a unique probe of the detailed mechanisms underlying radiation pressure. We revisit this effect in gold, a canonical Drude metal. We discover that the signal for p-polarized illumination in ambient air is affected in both sign and magnitude by adsorbed molecules, opening previous measurements for reinterpretation. Further, we show that the intrinsic sign of the photon-drag effect is contrary to the prevailing intuitive model of direct momentum transfer to free electrons.

@misc{strait2018revisiting, abstract = {The photon-drag effect, the rectified current in a medium induced by conservation of momentum of absorbed or redirected light, is a unique probe of the detailed mechanisms underlying radiation pressure. We revisit this effect in gold, a canonical Drude metal. We discover that the signal for p-polarized illumination in ambient air is affected in both sign and magnitude by adsorbed molecules, opening previous measurements for reinterpretation. Further, we show that the intrinsic sign of the photon-drag effect is contrary to the prevailing intuitive model of direct momentum transfer to free electrons.}, added-at = {2019-08-06T17:26:33.000+0200}, author = {Strait, Jared H. and Holland, Glenn and Zhu, Wenqi and Zhang, Cheng and Ilic, Bojan R. and Agrawal, Amit and Pacifici, Domenico and Lezec, Henri J.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2cd784b0ad938fd8062f4a8f916fc7af0/cmcneile}, description = {Revisiting the Photon-Drag Effect in Metal Films}, interhash = {717772a670fc118fd3bef76298e75714}, intrahash = {cd784b0ad938fd8062f4a8f916fc7af0}, keywords = {condmatter}, note = {cite arxiv:1812.01673Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures}, timestamp = {2019-08-06T17:26:33.000+0200}, title = {Revisiting the Photon-Drag Effect in Metal Films}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01673}, year = 2018 }