Interaction of photons traversing a slowly varying electromagnetic background
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-09-15 v3 Optics
Abstract
When two electromagnetic fields counterpropagate, they are modified due to mutual interaction via the polarised virtual electron-positron states of the vacuum. By studying how photon-photon scattering effects such as birefringence and four-wave mixing evolve as the fields pass through one another, we find a significant increase during overlap. The results have particular relevance for calculations based on a constant field background.
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@article{arxiv.1406.4139,
title = {Interaction of photons traversing a slowly varying electromagnetic background},
author = {B. King and P. Böhl and H. Ruhl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4139},
year = {2015}
}