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Interaction of waves with a birefringent medium moving with acceleration

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Recent experiments demonstrated that the energy of a neutron traversing an accelerated sample of a refractive medium changes. Later, it was realized that such an accelerated-medium effect (AME) is quite a general phenomenon characteristic of waves and particles of different nature. This paper discusses some special features of the effect for a birefringent medium. In this case, AME shows quite new features. In neutron optics, where birefringence is due to the spin dependence of the refractive index, AME results in a nonstationary state with a precessing spin. In the case of the propagation of a two-flavor neutrino through an accelerated layer of matter, AME affects substantially the ensuing evolution of a neutrino flavor state as it propagates through a free space.

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Original Russian Text © A.I. Frank, V.A. Naumov, 2013, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2013, Vol. 76, No. 12, pp. 1507–1518.

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Frank, A.I., Naumov, V.A. Interaction of waves with a birefringent medium moving with acceleration. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 76, 1423–1433 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778813120065

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