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TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing vacuum electrodynamics using "slow light" experiments
AU - Flood, Stephen P.
AU - Burton, David A.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - A recent proposal to explore vacuum electrodynamics using the speed of propagation of an electromagnetic wave through an ambient constant magnetic field is examined. It is argued that the proposal should be modified so that the background magnetic field, the direction of propagation and the transverse projection of the electric field (with respect to the direction of propagation) are not coplanar. The implications of invariance under Gibbons' electric-magnetic duality rotations are determined in this context.
AB - A recent proposal to explore vacuum electrodynamics using the speed of propagation of an electromagnetic wave through an ambient constant magnetic field is examined. It is argued that the proposal should be modified so that the background magnetic field, the direction of propagation and the transverse projection of the electric field (with respect to the direction of propagation) are not coplanar. The implications of invariance under Gibbons' electric-magnetic duality rotations are determined in this context.
U2 - 10.1209/0295-5075/100/60005
DO - 10.1209/0295-5075/100/60005
M3 - Journal article
VL - 100
JO - EPL
JF - EPL
SN - 0295-5075
M1 - 60005
ER -