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arXiv:hep-ph/0607195 · Physics Letters A

Photon acceleration in vacuum

José Tito Mendonça, M. Marklund, Prabhat Kumar Shukla, Gert Brodin

Published Jul 30, 2006• 29 citations
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10.1016/j.physleta.2006.07.024

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