Birefringence and dichroism of the QED vacuum
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics A Mathematical General
- Pub Date:
- September 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0305-4470/30/18/022
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-ph/9705367
- Bibcode:
- 1997JPhA...30.6485H
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Journal of Physics A