Birefringence and dichroism of the QED vacuum
- 21 September 1997
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 30 (18) , 6485-6492
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/30/18/022
Abstract
We use an analytic form for the Heisenberg - Euler Lagrangian to calculate the birefringent and dichroic properties of the vacuum for arbitrarily strong wrenchless fields.Keywords
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