Magnetic and electric properties of quantum vacuum
Optics
2015-06-12 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
In this report we show that vacuum is a nonlinear optical medium and we discuss what are the optical phenomena that should exist in the framework of the standard model of particle physics. We pay special attention to the low energy limit. The predicted effects for photons of energy smaller than the electron rest mass are of such a level that none has been observed experimentally yet. Progresses in field sources and related techniques seem to indicate that in few years vacuum nonlinear optics will be accessible to human investigation.
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@article{arxiv.1211.1933,
title = {Magnetic and electric properties of quantum vacuum},
author = {Rémy Battesti and Carlo Rizzo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.1933},
year = {2015}
}
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