Phi-Psi model for Electrodynamics in dielectric media: exact quantisation in the Heisenberg representation
Mathematical Physics
2015-12-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Abstract
We investigate the quantization in the Heisenberg representation of a model which represents a simplification of the Hopfield model for dielectric media, where the electromagnetic field is replaced by a scalar field and the role of the polarization field is played by a further scalar field . The model, which is quadratic in the fields, is still characterized by a nontrivial physical content, as the physical particles correspond to the polaritons of the standard Hopfield model of condensed matter physics. Causality is also taken into account and a discussion of the standard interaction representation is also considered.
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@article{arxiv.1512.08738,
title = {Phi-Psi model for Electrodynamics in dielectric media: exact quantisation in the Heisenberg representation},
author = {F. Belgiorno and S. L. Cacciatori and F. Dala Piazza and M. Doronzo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.08738},
year = {2015}
}
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9 pages