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Light in a dielectric medium moves slower than in vacuum. The corresponding electromagnetic field equations are then no longer invariant under ordinary Lorentz transformations, but only under such transformations corresponding to this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-25 Finn Ravndal

New form of Fermat's principle for light propagation in arbitrary (i.e. in general neither static nor stationary) gravitational field is proposed. It is based on Herglotz extension of canonical formalism and simple relation between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Joanna Piwnik , Joanna Gonera , Piotr Kosiński

Starting from the experimental fact that a moving charge experiences the Lorentz force and applying the fundamental principles of simplicity (first order derivatives only) and linearity (superposition principle), we show that the structure…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-05-27 Gerhard Diener , Jürgen Weissbarth , Frank Grossmann , Rüdiger Schmidt

A theory of electromagnetism is proposed that is based on the Fermi Lagrangian, which is symmetric under electromagnetic spin rotation. Its features are: - the four-potential is unambiguously determined by the inhomogeneous wave equation…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-08 A. B. van Oosten

We construct a low-energy effective field theory that permits the complete treatment of isospin-breaking effects in nonleptonic weak interactions to next-to-leading order. To this end, we enlarge the chiral Lagrangian describing strong and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Ecker , G. Isidori , G. Mueller , H. Neufeld , A. Pich

We consider a classical Dirac field in flat Minkowski spacetime. We perform a Gordon decomposition of its canonical energy-momentum and spin currents, respectively. Thereby we find for each of these currents a convective and a polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-15 F. W. Hehl , A. Macías , E. W. Mielke , Yu. N. Obukhov

We study a general problem of the translational/rotational/vibrational/electronic dynamics of a diatomic molecule exposed to an interaction with an arbitrary external electromagnetic field. The theory developed in this paper is relevant to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Milan Sindelka , Nimrod Moiseyev

We use the dynamical mean field theory to develop a systematic and computationally tractable method for studying electron-phonon interactions in systems with arbitrary electronic correlations. The method is formulated as an adiabatic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Deppeler , A. J. Millis

Our present contribution sets out to investigate a scenario based on the effects of the Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) on the electromagnetic sector of the Standard Model of Fundamental Interactions and Particle Physics (SM). Starting then from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 P. A. L. Mourão , G. L. L. W. Levy , J. A. Helayël-Neto

We propose a numerical method which embeds the variational non-Gaussian wavefunction approach within exact diagonalization, allowing for efficient treatment of correlated systems with both electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-11-24 Yao Wang , Ilya Esterlis , Tao Shi , J. Ignacio Cirac , Eugene Demler

The physics of an electron solid, held on a cryogenic liquid surface by a pressing electric field, is examined in a low-density regime that has not been explored before. We consider the effect of the pressing field in distorting the surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masudul Haque , Indranil Paul , Sergey Pankov

Electromagnetic wave is reflected and refracted at interfaces, satisfying Fresnel-Snell law which is required by conservations of energy and momentum. If the incident angle is lower than the critical angle, we can use this Fresnel-Snell…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-30 Daigo Oue

The strong-coupling perturbation theory (SCPT) for correlated electron systems is extended to the case of full Coulomb interaction. The Coulomb mechanism of the orbital polarization is discussed and attention is paid to the importance of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Sandalov , U. Lundin , O. Eriksson

Problems of self-interaction arise in both classical and quantum field theories. To understand how such problems are to be addressed in a quantum theory of the Dirac and electromagnetic fields (quantum electrodynamics), we can start by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-01 Charles T. Sebens

A time-dependent inelastic electron transport theory for strong electron-phonon interaction is established via the equations of motion method combined with the small polaron transformation. In this work, the dissipation via electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-21 Yu Zhang , ChiYung Yam , GuanHua Chen

In this work, we study the behavior of elementary electromagnetic sources, i.e., point-like electric charges and intrinsic magnetic dipoles, in the presence of homogeneous electromagnetic fields in a classical and covariant setting. We show…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Ivanina Ilieva , Carsten Rockstuhl , Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton

Using the relativistic electrodynamics of continuous media formalism and main relativistic quantum field theory principles the covariant Lagrangian of electromagnetic field interaction with polarizable 1/2-spin particles have been obtained.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-07-18 A. Ilyichev , S. Lukashevich , N. Maksimenko

The semiclassical Coulomb excitation interaction is at times expressed in the Lorentz gauge in terms of the electromagnetic fields and a contribution from the scalar electric potential. We point out that the potential term can make spurious…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 B. V. Carlson , L. F. Canto , M. S. Hussein

We discuss the effect of an external electric field on the wetting of a solid surface by liquid. To this end, we use a model of the two-level-atom fluid for which the changes in interatomic interactions due to the presence of the field can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-20 Vasyl Myhal , Oleg Derzhko

We review the propagation of electromagnetic waves in continuous matter in the presence of Lorentz-violating terms. First, we briefly discuss classical electrodynamics with regard to optical properties of a dielectric medium exhibiting the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-05 Manoel M. Ferreira , Pedro D. S. Silva , Marco Schreck