S. I. Vavilov: Remarks on the empirical accuracy of the optical superposition principle [Engl. transl. of Zh. Russk. Fiz.-Khim. Obshch., Ch. Fiz. 60(1928)555]. Preprint arXiv:1708.06817, 〈hal-01599214〉, 27 pp.. [INSPIRE record]
Abstract: English translation of a Russian article from 1928. Translator's abstract: The article presents general considerations on the validity of the superposition principle for light in vacuo from out a quantum theoretic point of view. It contains a report on an optical experiment designed to detect the phenomenon of photon-photon scattering. To understand the negative result of the performed experiment, a consideration of the solar corona is undertaken in order to derive an empirical upper bound on the photon-photon scattering rate.
Full source details: С. И. Вавилов [S. I. Vavilov]: Замечания об эмпирической точности оптического принципа суперпозиции [Zamechaniya ob èmpiricheskoĭ tochnosti opticheskogo printsipa superpozitsii]/[Remarks on the empirical accuracy of the optical superposition principle]. Журнал Русского Физико-Химического Общества при Ленинградском Университете, Часть Физическая [Zhurnal Russkogo Fiziko-Khimicheskogo Obshchestva pri Leningradskom Universitete, Chast' Fizicheskaya]/[Journal of the Russian Physico-Chemical Society at Leningrad University, Physical Part], Vol. LX-1928, No. 6, pp. 555-563. [in Russian, German summary] Reprinted in (changed footnote numbering, German summary omitted): С. И. Вавилов [S. I. Vavilov]: Собрание сочинений. Том I - Работы по физике 1914-1936 [Sobranie sochineniĭ. Tom I - Raboty po fizike 1914-1936]/[Collected Works. Vol. I - Works in Physics 1914-1936]. Издательство Академии наук СССР [Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR]/[Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR], Moscow, 1954, item 24, pp. 234-241 (The reprint is freely available online at the following site of the Russian Academy of Sciences: http://nasledie.enip.ras.ru/ras/view/publication/general.html?id=43932907 ).
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