Photon acceleration in vacuum
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
A new process associated with the nonlinear optical properties of the electromagnetic vacuum, as predicted by quantum electrodynamics, is described. This can be called photon acceleration in vacuum, and corresponds to the frequency shift that takes place when a given test photon interacts with an intense beam of background radiation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0607195,
title = {Photon acceleration in vacuum},
author = {J. T. Mendonca and M. Marklund and P. K. Shukla and G. Brodin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0607195},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures, version to appear in Phys. Lett. A