Generalization of the Einstein-Plank-Richardson law for the photon energy in medium resolves Abraham-Minkowski dilemma in the electromagnetic field theory statement

TL;DR

This paper generalizes the Einstein-Plank-Richardson law for photons in media, resolving the Abraham-Minkowski dilemma by aligning photon momentum with Abraham's theory and providing new insights into refraction and cosmic radiation phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces a new quantum law for photon energy in media, unifies de Broglie and Einstein's theories, and resolves longstanding debates on photon momentum in dielectric media.

Findings

Photon momentum aligns with Abraham's theory p=p_a=E/(c*n)

New quantum law: E=h*nu*n

Implications for Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation in cosmic background

Abstract

On the base of the Hamilton theory for the time-like photon in isotropic dielectric with refraction index n (S.Antoci, et.al, 2007), we suggest generalization of the Einstein-Plank-Richardson law for the value of the light energy quantum in medium:E=h*nu*n, where h is the Plank's constant, and nu is the light frequency. By use of this new quantum law, we resolve the famous contradiction between de Broglie and Einstein's theories, related with the old Abraham-Minkowski dilemma in the definition of the photon momentum value p (in the medium for n>1). We show that the same value p=p_a=E/(c*n)(c is the speed of light in vacuum) follows now from the both theories of de Broglie and Einstein, which complies with the theory of Abraham, but not with the theory of Minkowski (where p=p_m=E*n/c). Based on the corpuscular approach with p=p_a and E=h*nu*n^2, we give new inference for the Snellius refraction law and resolve more old corresponding corpuscular-wave Newton-Huygens dilemma. We show that even for n-1<<1 the Abraham and Minkowski theories (with different p=p_a and p=p_m)may lead to very different conclusions. Thus, only the theory with p=p_a, contrary to the theory with p=p_m, allows the conclusion about the Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation realization in the photon gas of the background cosmic radiation, for which n-1=10^(-42) in the current epoch.