Abstract
In a classical experiment, Jones et al. have measured that the recoil effect of light reflecting from a body immersed in a dielectric liquid is proportional to the refractive index, n.1 This observation revived the so called Abraham-Minkowski controversy related to the question whether the recoil effect is proportional to n−1 or to n. The confusion was essentially due to the fact that the vacuum momentum of the light may be divided between the medium and the electromagnetic wave.2 It still seems an open question how the torsional recoil due to transfer of angular momentum inside a dielectric medium will behave. We have therefore performed an experimental study of this issue.
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