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Vacuum birefringence probably found near neutron stars: more research to come?

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Precision tests of QED

Euler–Heisenberg Lagrangian

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Do we live in a false vacuum?

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Will a space-based interferometer detect a gravitational wave background attributable to cosmological sources?

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