A particle mechanism for the index of refraction
Optics
2007-09-12 v1
Abstract
We propose to go away from the electromagnetic wave description of light and to explain through a purely corpuscular and neutral approach, the phenomenon of the slowing down of light in a transparent medium. The quantum predictions and ours are compared against experimental refractive indices. In our framework the optical Kerr phenomenon finds a very natural interpretation and its numerical values are obtained easily
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@article{arxiv.0709.1550,
title = {A particle mechanism for the index of refraction},
author = {Marcel Urban},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.1550},
year = {2007}
}