Continuous axion photon duality and its consequences

@article{Guendelman2008ContinuousAP,
  title={Continuous axion photon duality and its consequences},
  author={Eduardo Guendelman},
  journal={Modern Physics Letters A},
  year={2008},
  volume={23},
  pages={191-196}
}
  • E. Guendelman
  • Published 23 November 2007
  • Physics
  • Modern Physics Letters A
The axion–photon system in an external magnetic field, when for example considered with the geometry of the experiments exploring axion–photon mixing, displays a continuous axion–photon duality symmetry in the limit the axion mass is neglected. The conservation law that follows from this symmetry is obtained. The magnetic field interaction is seen to be equivalent to first order to the interaction of a complex charged field with an external electric potential, where this fictitious "electric… 
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