Table S1.
Definition of the field quantities relevant for the emergence of the optical forces on small chiral particles
Definition of the quantity | Description |
Poynting momentum density | |
Value of the imaginary adjoint to the Poynting momentum density | |
Orbital (or canonical) Poynting momentum density | |
Electric contribution to the orbital Poynting momentum density | |
Magnetic contribution to the orbital Poynting momentum density | |
Spin part of the Poynting momentum density (Belinfante spin momentum) | |
Electric contribution to the spin momentum density | |
Magnetic contribution to the spin momentum density | |
SAM density | |
Electric contribution to the SAM density | |
Magnetic contribution to the SAM | |
Helicity | |
Vorticity of the photon flow | |
Electric contribution to the energy density | |
Magnetic contribution to the energy density | |
Intensity |
A derivation and discussion of many quantities can be found in Bliokh et al. (17).