ar X iv : a st ro - p h / 04 10 29 4 v 2 1 7 A pr 2 00 5 New low - frequency nonlinear electromagnetic wave in a magnetized plasma
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A new nonlinear electromagnetic mode in a magnetized plasma is predicted. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon–photon scattering is taken into account. This scattering gives rise to a new coupling between the matter and the radiation. Specifically, we consider an electron– positron plasma, and show that the propagation of the new mode is admitted. It could be of significance in pulsar magnetospheres, and result in energy transport between the pulsar poles. Astrophysical environments can be most violent and energetic. Physics considered 'ex-otic' in Earth based laboratory applications can be common throughout our Universe, and sometimes even vital for the existence of certain observed phenomena. Pulsars, surrounded by strong magnetic fields, are most prolific sources of exotic physics. Quantum electrodynam-ics (QED) is an indispensable explanatory model for much of the observed pulsar phenomena. Scattering of photons off photons is predicted by QED, and it can be a prominent component of pulsar physics, since pulsars offer the necessary energy scales for such scattering to occur. Related to the scattering of photons is the concept of photon splitting in strong magnetic fields (Adler 1971). It has been suggested that such effects could be important in explaining the radio silence of magnetars (Kouveliotou 1998; Baring & Harding 2001). In the present Letter we will point out the existence of a new low-frequency nonlinear electromagnetic wave that may exist in a magnetized plasma, due to the interaction of photons with the quantum vacuum. A discussion of the properties of this new electromagnetic wave using parameters relevant to strongly magnetized pulsars will be given. The weak field theory of photon–photon scattering can be formulated in terms of the effective Lagrangian density
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