• Title of article

    The speed of light in confined QED vacuum: faster or slower than c?

  • Author/Authors

    M.V. Cougo-Pinto، نويسنده , , C. Farina، نويسنده , , F.C. Santos، نويسنده , , A. Tort، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 1999
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    170
  • To page
    174
  • Abstract
    We consider the propagation of light in the QED vacuum between an unusual pair of parallel plates, namely: a perfectly conducting one (ϵ→∞) and an infinitely permeable one (μ→∞). For weak fields and in the soft photon approximation we show that the speed of light for propagation normal to the plates is smaller than its value in unbounded space (in contrast to the original Scharnhorst effect [K. Scharnhorst, Phys. Lett. B 236 (1990) 354, G. Barton, Phys. Lett. B 237 (1990) 559, G. Barton, K. Scharnhorst, J. Phys. A 26 (1993) 2037]).
  • Keywords
    Scharnhorst effect , QED vacuum
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Serial Year
    1999
  • Journal title
    PHYSICS LETTERS B
  • Record number

    911258