Self-trapping of electromagnetic beams in vacuum supported by QED nonlinear effects

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 043817-043811

  Soljačić, Marin ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; FOCUSING; HIGH INTENSITY LIGHT; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; SOLITONS; TENSORS; VACUUM; VECTORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC BEAMS; HEISENBERG-EULER CORRECTION; LAGRANGIAN DENSITY; PHOTON-PHOTON INTERACTION; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0342955680     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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