Lower bound to limiting fields in nonlinear electrodynamics
- In view of new high-precision experiments in atomic physics it seems necessary to reexamine nonlinear theories of electrodynamics. The precise calculation of electronic and muonic atomic energies has been used to determine the possible size of the upper limit Emax to the electric field strength, which has been assumed to be a parameter. This is opposed to Born's idea of a purely electromagnetic origin of the electron's mass which determines Emax. We find Emax≥1.7×1020 V/cm.
| Author: | Gerhard SoffGND, Johann RafelskiORCiDGND, Walter GreinerGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-28832 |
| Parent Title (German): | Physical review A |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2006/06/27 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1973 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2006/06/27 |
| Volume: | 7 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Page Number: | 5 |
| First Page: | 903 |
| Last Page: | 907 |
| Source: | Phys. Rev. A 7, 903~V907 (1973), ©1973 The American Physical Society, http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v7/p903 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 186785186 |
| Institutes: | Physik / Physik |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
