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A new approach to the geometrization of the electron theory is proposed. The particle wave function is represented by a geometric entity, i.e., Clifford number, with the translation rules possessing the structure of Dirac equation for any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. I. Lev

The theoretical foundations of quantum mechanics and de Broglie--Bohm mechanics are analyzed and it is shown that both theories employ a formal approach to microphysics. By using a realistic approach it can be established that the internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 W. A. Hofer

In this paper we analyze the quantum uncertainties and the photon statistics in the interaction between the two modes of radiation by treating them as coupled harmonic oscillator with the motivation of controlling quantum properties of one…

atom-ph · Physics 2010-12-14 Abir Bandyopadhyay , Jagdish Rai

Wave-particle duality is the most fundamental description of the nature of a quantum object which behaves like a classical particle or wave depending on the measurement apparatus. On the other hand, entanglement represents nonclassical…

The wave-particle duality of the vacuum states of quantum fields is considered and the particle-like property of the vacuum state of a quantum field is proposed as a vacuum-particle which carries the vacuum-energy and the vacuum-momentum of…

General Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Wenzhuo Zhang

The properties of coherence and polarization of light has been the subject of intense investigations and form the basis of many technological applications. These concepts which historically have been treated independently can now be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-07 Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo

Detailed similarities between polarization states of light and ballistic charge carriers in graphene are derived. Based on these, the optical equivalent of quantum wavefunctions, Dirac equation, and the effect of an electrostatic potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Dragoman

We apply the formalism of quantum measurement theory to the idealized measurement of the position of a particle with an optical interferometer, finding that the backaction of counting entangled photons systematically collapses the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Lee E. Harrell

A universal energy eigenvalue equation is proposed in this paper. It is proven that the unique set of eigenfunctions or preferred basis exists for any non-isolated sub-system. Applying the new eigenvalue equation to the relative motion of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Shizhong Mei

Effective field theories (EFT) are strongly constrained by fundamental principles such as unitarity, locality, causality, and Lorentz invariance. In this paper, we consider the EFT of photons (or other $U(1)$ gauge field) and compare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Mariana Carrillo González , Claudia de Rham , Sumer Jaitly , Victor Pozsgay , Anna Tokareva

Recently, a new interpretation of quantum mechanics has been developed for the wave nature of a photon, where determinacy in quantum correlations becomes an inherent property without the violation of quantum mechanics. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 S. Kim , Byoung S. Ham

Light-front wave functions play a fundamental role in the light-front quantization approach to QCD and hadron structure. However, a naive implementation of the light-front quantization suffers from various subtleties including the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 Xiangdong Ji , Yizhuang Liu

Spontaneous emission of a photon by an atom is described theoretically in three dimensions with the initial wave function of a finite-mass atom taken in the form of a finite-size wave packet. Recoil and wave-packet spreading are taken into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Fedorov , M. A. Efremov , A. E. Kazakov , K. W. Chan , C. K. Law , J. H. Eberly

We present a general theory to describe two-photon interference, including a formal description of few photon intereference in terms of single-photon amplitudes. With this formalism, it is possible to describe both frequency entangled and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. G. Lapaire , J. E. Sipe

New quantum modes of the free scalar field are derived in a special time-evolution picture that may be introduced in moving charts of de Sitter backgrounds. The wave functions of these new modes are solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ion I. Cotaescu , Cosmin Crucean , Adrian Pop

The standard classical description of non-laminar charge particle beams in paraxial approximation is extended to the context of two wave theories. The first theory is the so-called Thermal Wave Model (TWM) that interprets the paraxial…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Renato Fedele , Fatema Tanjia , Dusan Jovanovic , Sergio De Nicola , Concetta Ronsivalle

During the past century, the electromagnetic field momentum in material media has been under debate in the Abraham-Minkowski controversy as convincing arguments have been advanced in favor of both the Abraham and Minkowski forms of photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-17 Mikko Partanen , Teppo Häyrynen , Jani Oksanen , Jukka Tulkki

Optical coherence encodes information about the correlations of the electromagnetic field. In combination with quantum optical approaches, it allows for the study of the correlations between photons. Since the pioneering papers of Glauber,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Philipp Stammer , Javier Rivera-Dean , Maciej Lewenstein

The problem of a single electron in a magnetic field is revisited from first principles. It is shown that the standard quantization, used by Landau, is inconsistent for this problem, whence Landau's wave functions spontaneously break the…

General Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 D. K. Sunko

Photons are elementary particles of lights, which have both spin and orbital angular momentum as internal degrees of freedom. Nature of spin is known as polarisation, which is widely used for sunglasses, liquid-crystal displays,…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-06 Shinichi Saito