The Abraham–Minkowski controversy refers to a longstanding debate in theoretical physics regarding the momentum of light in a medium and the way that electromagnetic waves interact with matter. Specifically, it revolves around two competing formulations for the momentum of light in a dielectric medium, attributed to physicists Max Abraham and Hermann Minkowski, both of whom derived different expressions for the momentum of photons in a medium.

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