Effective Lagrangians and nonlinear electromagnetism

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1285-1291

  Muñoz, Gerardo ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040056497     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18372     Document Type: Article

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22. I am indebted to Professor A. C. Melissinos for patiently explaining to me the details and sensitivity of the experiment reported in Ref. 21, and for information regarding planned experiments which may actually prove capable of observing QED birefringence for real photons.