About the connection between vacuum birefringence and the light-light scattering amplitude
General Physics
2009-11-13 v2
Abstract
Birefringence phenomena stemming from vacuum polarization are revisited in the framework of coherent scattering. Based on photon-photon scattering, our analysis brings out the direct connection between this process and vacuum birefringence. We show how this procedure can be extended to the Kerr and the Cotton-Mouton birefringences in vacuum, thus providing a unified treatment of various polarization schemes, including those involving static fields.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0610034,
title = {About the connection between vacuum birefringence and the light-light scattering amplitude},
author = {J. Haissinski and S. Dagoret and M. Urban and F. Zomer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0610034},
year = {2009}
}