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Quantum Electrodynamical Effects in Dusty Plasmas

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a magnetized dusty plasma is predicted. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a dusty plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon-photon scattering is taken into account. Specifically, we consider a dusty electron-positron-ion plasma, and show that the propagation of the new mode is admitted. It could be of significance for the physics of supernova remnants and in neutron star formation.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0503385,
  title  = {Quantum Electrodynamical Effects in Dusty Plasmas},
  author = {M. Marklund and L. Stenflo and P. K. Shukla and G. Brodin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0503385},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figure, references added, matches version to appear in Phys. Plasmas