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Ferenc Márkus1, Katalin Gambár2,3
1Department of Physics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary.
Abstract:
The appearance of a negative mass term in the classical, non-relativistic Klein-Gordon equation deduced from mechanical interactions describes a repulsive interaction. In the case of a traveling wave, this results in an increase in amplitude and a decrease in the wave propagation velocity. Since this leads to dissipation, it is a symmetry-breaking phenomenon. After the repulsive interaction is eliminated, the system evolves towards the original state. Given that the interactions within the system are conservative, it would be assumed that even the original state is restored. The analysis to be presented shows that a wave with a lower angular frequency than the original one is transformed back to a slightly larger amplitude. This description is a suitable model of the axion effect, during which an electromagnetic wave interacts with a repulsive field and becomes of a continuously lower frequency.
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