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Dynamics of zero-point energy and two-slit phenomena for photons

Quantum Physics 2019-09-04 v1

Abstract

An earlier forward and backward in time formalism developed by us to discuss non-relativistic electron diffraction is generalized to the relativistic case and here applied to photons. We show how naturally the zero-point energy emerges in the Planck black-body spectrum once symmetric in time motion - inherent in the Maxwell equations - is invoked for photons. Then, a detailed study is made of two-slit experiments for photons and some novel phenomena, amenable to experiments, are proposed, that arise due to the spin of the photon.

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@article{arxiv.1811.08562,
  title  = {Dynamics of zero-point energy and two-slit phenomena for photons},
  author = {A. Widom and J. Swain and Y. N. Srivastava and M. Blasone and G. Vitiello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.08562},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1510.06272