One thing that general relativity says about photons in matter

Details One thing that general relativity says about photons in matter One thing that general relativity says about photons in matter

2001-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0106059v2

Nuovo Cim.B116:801-812,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

13 pages, 1 figure. Text to appear in Nuovo Cimento B

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Let us abandon for a moment the strict epistemological standpoint of quantum field theory, that eventually comes to declare nonsensical any question about the photon posed outside the quantum theoretical framework. We can then avail of the works by Whittaker et al. and by Synge about the particle and the wave model of the photon in the vacuum of general relativity. We can also rely on important results found by Gordon and by Pham Mau Quan: thanks to Gordon's discovery of an effective metric these authors have been able to reduce to the vacuum case several problems of the electromagnetic theory of dielectrics. The joint use of these old findings allows one to conclude that a quantum theoretical photon in an isotropic dielectric has a classical simile only if the dielectric is also homogeneous.

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