Relativistic effects of light in moving media with extremely low group velocity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 822-825

  Leonhardt, U ^a,b   Piwnicki, P ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0001127078     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.822     Document Type: Article

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