Observation of displacement momentum in normal and chiral dielectrics
G. L. J. A. Rikken and B. A. van Tiggelen
Accepted
We argue that displacement currents in dielectrics are in general accompanied by mechanical momentum through total momentum conservation, quite analogous to the Einstein-deHaas effect. We report the first observation of such displacement momentum, generated by a time varying electric field in a dielectric, and by a time varying magnetic field in a chiral dielectric.