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Superluminal Motions? A Bird's-Eye View of the Experimental Situation

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In this article, after a theoretical introduction and a sketch of some related long-standing predictions, a bird's-eye view is presented—with the help of nine figures—of the various experimental sectors of physics in which Superluminal motions seem to appear (thus contributing support to those past predictions). In particular, a panorama is presented of the experiments with evanescent waves and/or tunnelling photons, and with the “localized Superluminal solutions” to the Maxwell equations (like the so-called X-shaped beams). The present review is brief, but is followed by a large enough bibliography to allow the interested reader deepening the preferred topic.

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Recami, E. Superluminal Motions? A Bird's-Eye View of the Experimental Situation. Foundations of Physics 31, 1119–1135 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017582525039

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