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All elementary particles in nature can be classified as fermions with half-integer spin and bosons with integer spin. Within quantum electrodynamics (QED), even though the spin of the Dirac particle is well defined, there exist open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Li-Ping Yang , Farhad. Khosravi , Zubin Jacob

In this and companion papers, we show that quantum field theories with gauge symmetries permit a broader class of classical dynamics than typically assumed. In this article, we show that the quantization of electromagnetism permits the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 David E. Kaplan , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran

We consider free electrons in rectangular quantum dots, with either hard wall boundary conditions or anharmonic confinement. In both cases, due to finite size effects, a homogeneous electric field applied along one of the rectangular axis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephane Pleutin

We discuss the Heisenberg-Wigner phase-space formalism in quantum electrodynamics as well as scalar quantum electrodynamics with respect to transverse fields. In regard to the special characteristics of such field types we derive modified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-13 Christian Kohlfürst

We introduce the Wigner functional representing a quantum field in terms of the field amplitudes and their conjugate momenta. The equation of motion for the functional of a scalar field point out the relevance of solutions of the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 S. Mrowczynski , B. Mueller

Classical physics is reformulated as a constrained Hamiltonian system in the history phase space. Dynamics, i.e. the Euler-Lagrange equations, play the role of first-class constraints. This allows us to apply standard methods from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Larsson

The diagonalization of the metrical and canonical Hamilton operators of a scalar field with an arbitrary coupling, with a curvature in N-dimensional homogeneous isotropic space is considered in this paper. The energy spectrum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-20 Yu. V. Pavlov

We formulate quantum mechanics in the two-dimensional torus without using position operators. We define an algebra with only momentum operators and shift operators and construct irreducible representation of the algebra. We show that it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Shogo Tanimura

We compute the angular momentum of the electromagnetic field on a late time Cauchy surface with an arbitrary constant normal vector relevant for the classical scattering of charged particles. We find a time independent contribution to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-08 Rishabh Bhardwaj , Luke Lippstreu

The flux of angular momentum in electromagnetism cannot be expressed entirely in terms of the field's radiative degrees of freedom. Its expression also involves Coulombic pieces of the field, in the form of a charge aspect $q(\theta,\phi)$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Béatrice Bonga , Eric Poisson

A set of gauge transformations of a relativistic field of quantum harmonic oscillators is studied in a mathematically rigorous manner. Each wave function in the domain of the number operator of a single oscillator generates a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-06 Jan Naudts

We present a theory of quantized radiation fields described in terms of q-deformed harmonic oscillators. The creation and annihilation operators satisfy deformed commutation relations and the Fock space of states is constructed in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Narayana Swamy

Quantization of electromagnetic fields is investigated in the framework of stochastic variational method (SVM). Differently from the canonical quantization, this method does not require canonical form and quantization can be performed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-25 T. Koide. T. Kodama , K. Tsushima

In this paper, we will assume that the structure picture of the rotation angles will be changed according to the scale of measurement (minimum measurable angle) and if we have a device with very high accuracy (high resolution) then we can…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ahmad Adel Abutaleb

It is argued that the massive non-Abelian gauge field theory without involving Higgs bosons may be well established on the basis of gauge-invariance principle because the dynamics of the field is gauge-invariant in the physical space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun-Chen Su

A four-vector field in flat space-time, satisfying a gauge-invariant set of second-order differential equations, is considered as a unified field. The model variational principle corresponds to the general covariance idea and gives rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander A. Chernitskii

By following closely Weinberg's soft theorem, which captures the $1/\omega$ pole contribution to the amplitude for soft graviton emissions ($\omega<\Lambda$) on top of an arbitrary background hard process, we calculate the expectation value…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-25 Paolo Di Vecchia , Carlo Heissenberg , Rodolfo Russo

Various electromagnetic systems can carry an angular momentum in their {\bf E} and {\bf B} fields. The electromagnetic field angular momentum (EMAM) of these systems can combine with the spin angular momentum to give composite fermions or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Douglas Singleton , Jerzy Dryzek

Gauge transformation leaves the electric and the magnetic fields unchanged as long as the gauge function is treated classically. In this paper we consider the gauge transformation commonly used to obtain the electric dipole interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-15 Makoto Morinaga

Considering a fluctuating scalar field on momentum space, some relativistic statistical field theories are constructed. A Hilbert space of observables is then constructed from functionals of the fluctuating scalar field with an inner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Brenden McDearmon