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Peierls’ dielectric response for clarification of interacting electron with laser beams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2013

Heinrich Hora
Heinrich Hora*
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Heinrich Hora, Department of Theoretical Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia. E-mail: h.hora@unsw.edu.au
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Abstract

The formulation of the momentum of electromagnetic radiation or photons in media is a historical question. After Peierls discussed all these options, a crucial new value for the dominating dispersion factor σ was derived for non-ionized media with the consequence that an opto-acoustic coupling exists. After the experimental confirmation of the Kapitza-Dirac effect the generalization of the effect for quantum modulation of electron beams by crossing laser beams is ascertained. The evaluation of repeated experiments of this quantum modulation is very precisely confirming by measurements that the Peierls factor σ = 1/5 is correct.

Keywords

Kapitza-Dirac effectNonresonance excitationQuantum modulation of electronsSchwarz-Hora effect
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Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , June 2013 , pp. 257 - 261
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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