A Simple Field Theoretic Description of Single-Photon Nonlocality
Quantum Physics
2021-11-04 v2 Optics
Abstract
We present a simple yet rigorous field theoretic demonstration of the nonlocality of a single-photon field. The formalism used allows us to calculate the electric field of a single-photon light beam sent through a beam splitter, which directly demonstrates that it is the light field, rather than the photon itself regarded as a particle, that exhibits nonlocality. Our results are obtained without using either inequalities or specific measurement apparatuses, so that they have perfectly general validity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2110.12930,
title = {A Simple Field Theoretic Description of Single-Photon Nonlocality},
author = {Andrea Aiello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.12930},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
Main text 6 pages, 2 figures. Supplemental material 29 pages, 1 figure. v2: some minor restyling and typo corrections