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Symmetry breaking and effective photon mass

Optics 2017-08-25 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We suggest a possibility that the photon can acquire a finite mass in a medium when the external interaction and symmetry is broken on the basis of Chern-Simons gauge theory.

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@article{arxiv.1708.07414,
  title  = {Symmetry breaking and effective photon mass},
  author = {Yong-Hae Ko and Gwang-Il Kim and Sok-Hyon Won and Nam-Chol Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.07414},
  year   = {2017}
}
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