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How to Describe Photons as (3+1)-Solitons?

Optics 2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Pattern Formation and Solitons patt-sol Atomic Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

This paper aims to present the pure field part of the newly developed nonlinear {\it Extended Electrodynamics} [1]-[3] in non-relativistic terms, i.e. in terms of the electric and magnetic vector fields (E,B{\mathbf E},{\mathbf B}), and to give explicitly those (3+1)-soliton solutions of the new equations which have the integral properties of photons. The set of solutions to the new equations contains all solutions to Maxwell's equations as a subclass, as well as, new solutions, called nonlinear. The important characteristics {\it scale factor}, {\it amplitude function}, and {\it phase function} of a nonlinear solution are defined in a coordinate free way and effectively used. The nonlinear solutions are identified through the non-zero values of two appropriately defined vector fields F\vec{\cal F} and M\vec{\cal M}, as well as, through the finite values of the corresponding scale factors. The intrinsic angular momentum (spin) is also defined. A limited superposition principle (interference of nonlinear solutions), yielding the well known classical {\it coherence} conditions, is found to exist.

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@article{arxiv.physics/9812009,
  title  = {How to Describe Photons as (3+1)-Solitons?},
  author = {S. Donev and D. Trifonov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9812009},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Latex, 15 pages (17 x 24cm text), no figures