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In this paper, we give the quantum wave equations of single photon when it is in the free or medium space. With these equations, we can study light interference and diffraction with quantum approach. Otherwise, they can be applied in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-10 Xiang-Yao Wu , Xiao-Jing Liu , Yi-Heng Wu , Qing-Cai Wang , Yan Wang

When a quantum object -- a particle as we call it in a non-rigorous way -- is described by a multi-branched wave- function, with the corresponding wave-packets occupying separated regions of the time-space, a frequently asked question is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 Sofia Wechsler

Based on an observation that the basic mode of a common microwave waveguide is a solution to the Klein-Gordon equation, quantum mechanics is modeled as the wave-function propagated inside a waveguide. The guide width is determined by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roald Ekholdt

Recently we introduced a local photon approach for modelling the quantised electromagnetic field in position space. Using this approach, we define the momentum of light in this paper as in quantum mechanics as the generator for spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Gabriel Waite , Daniel Hodgson , Ben Lang , Varghese Alapatt , Almut Beige

We report on an experiment showing that the wavelength of a biphoton is clearly dependent on the measurement scheme and on the way it is defined. It is shown that it can take any value, depending on the control of the interferometer phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. H. Souto Ribeiro

We analyze an experiment in which a thin wire is scanned across the overlap of two in phase photon beams. We find that unless the wire induces the formation of an interference pattern, the complementarity inequality is violated. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Eduardo V. Flores

The problem of the reflectance of a photon by a metallic mirror whose position is treated quantum mechanically is considered. The interaction between the metallic surface and the light is treated classically. It is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-25 Pablo L. Saldanha

After an overview of various citations relevant in the context of photon propagation, the relativistic Doppler effect and the addition theorem of velocities are first derived taking into account momentum and energy conservation. Clocks and…

General Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Klaus Wilhelm , Bhola N. Dwivedi

While the notion of the position of photons is indispensable in the quantum optical situations, it has been known in mathematical physics that any position operator cannot be defined for a massless free particle with a non-zero finite spin.…

General Physics · Physics 2011-02-01 Izumi Ojima , Hayato Saigo

The wave-particle duality has been said to contain the entire mystery of quantum mechanics. Many delayed-choice experiments have been performed to further understand the wave-particle duality. Here, we reveal some flaws in the known…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 Shan-Liang Liu

Weak measurement is unique in enabling measurements of non-commuting operators as well as otherwise-undetectable peculiar phenomena predicted by the Two-State-Vector-Formalism (TSVF). This article, the first in two parts, explores novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yakir Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen , Avshalom C. Elitzur

We show that controlled interference of a particle's wavefunction can be used to perform a quantum mechanical measurement in an incomplete basis. This happens because the measurement projects the particle into a lower dimensional subspace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Srikanth

We investigate the meaning of the wave function by analyzing the mass and charge density distributions of a quantum system. According to protective measurement, a charged quantum system has mass and charge density distributing in space,…

General Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Shan Gao

We consider a quantum emitter ("atom") radiating in a one-dimensional (1D) photonic waveguide in the presence of a single mirror, resulting in a delay differential equation for the atomic amplitude. We carry out a systematic analysis of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-03 Tommaso Tufarelli , M. S. Kim , Francesco Ciccarello

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

The so-called quantum measurement problems are solved from a new perspective. One of the main observations is that the basic entities of our world are {\it particles}, elementary or composite. It follows that each elementary process, hence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Kenichi Konishi

Weak measurements of photon position can be used to obtain direct experimental evidence of the wavefunction of a photon between generation and ultimate detection. Significantly, these measurement results can also be understood as complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-11 Holger F. Hofmann

A quantum mechanics representation based on position ($\vec{r}$), linear momentum($\vec{p}$) and energy($E$) eigenvalues is presented here. A set of equations, explicitly independent on wave function, was derived relating these observables.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-22 Jeconias Rocha Guimarães

Here the probability density of relativistic particles coordinates, satisfying the formal conditions of the quantum mechanics and the special relativity, is determined (under textbooks view, such density does not exist). It is specified for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 V. F. Krotov

One of the milestones of quantum mechanics is Bohr's complementarity principle. It states that a single quantum can exhibit a particle-like \emph{or} a wave-like behaviour, but never both at the same time. These are mutually exclusive and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Auccaise , R. M. Serra , J. G. Filgueiras , R. S. Sarthour , I. S. Oliveira , L. C. Céleri