Electromagnetic wave collapse in a radiation background

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Marklund, Mattias ^a   Brodin, Gert ^b   Stenflo, Lennart ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ASTROPHYSICS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; PHOTONS; RADIATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE RADIATION; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICAL (QED) EFFECTS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0345330829     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.163601     Document Type: Article

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