Birefringence and dichroism of the QED vacuum

被引:112
作者
Heyl, JS
Hernquist, L
机构
[1] Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND GENERAL | 1997年 / 30卷 / 18期
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10.1088/0305-4470/30/18/022
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O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We use an analytic form for the Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian to calculate the birefringent and dichroic properties of the vacuum for arbitrarily strong wrenchless fields.
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页码:6485 / 6492
页数:8
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