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Superluminal solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation and a causality problem

A. A. Borghardt, M. A. Belogolovskii, D. Ya. Karpenko

abstract: We present a new axially symmetric monochromatic free-space solution to the Klein-Gordon equation propagating with a superluminal group velocity and show that it gives rise to an imaginary part of the causal propagator outside the light cone. We address the question about causality of the spacelike paths and argue that the signal with a well-defined wavefront formed by the superluminal modes would propagate in vacuum with the light speed.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0310110
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
to be published in Physics Letters A, an additional reference to the paper by Buttiker and Washburn
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0310110
journal_ref:
Physics Letters A, vol. 318, pages 342-344 (2003)
created:
2003-10-17

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