Birefringence and Dichroism of the QED Vacuum
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1 Astrophysics
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. PACS : 12.20.Ds, 42.25.Lc 97.60.Jd, 98.70.Rz
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9705367,
title = {Birefringence and Dichroism of the QED Vacuum},
author = {Jeremy S. Heyl and Lars Hernquist},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9705367},
year = {2008}
}
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8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Journal of Physics A