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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

A new representation for solutions of Maxwell's equations is derived. Instead of being expanded in plane waves, the solutions are given as linear superpositions of spherical wavelets dynamically adapted to the Maxwell field and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gerald Kaiser

Using a variation of the celebrated Volkov solution, the Klein-Gordon equation for a charged particle is reduced to a set of ordinary differential equations, exactly solvable in specific cases. The new quantum relativistic structures can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Fernando Haas , Marcos Antonio Albarracin Manrique

In this paper using the Clifford bundle formalism we show how starting from the photon concept and its relativistic Hamilton-Jacobi equation (HJE) we immediately get (with a simple hypothesis concerning the form of the photon canonical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-24 Waldyr A. Rodrigues

According to the classical Einstein-Maxwell theory of gravity and electromagnetism, a light-wave traveling in empty space-time is accompanied by a gravitational field of the pp-type. Therefore point masses are scattered by a light wave,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 J. W. van Holten

It is shown in linear approximation that in the case of one-dimensional problem of transverse electron waves in a half-infinite slab of homogeneous Maxwellian collisionless plasma with the given boundary field frequency two wave branches of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 V. N. Soshnikov

A Lorentz-covariant system of wave equations is formulated for a quantum-mechanical three-body system in one space dimension, comprised of one photon and two identical massive spin one-half Dirac particles, which can be thought of as two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Lawrence Frolov , Samuel E. Leigh , A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh

The premetric approach to electrodynamics provides a unified description of a wide class of electromagnetic phenomena. In particular, it involves axion, dilaton and skewon modifications of the classical electrodynamics. This formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Yakov Itin

The NewtonWigner basis of orthonormal localized states is generalized to orthonormal and relativistic biorthonormal bases on an arbitrary hyperplane in spacetime. This covariant formalism is applied to the measurement of photon location…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Margaret Hawton

It is shown that a Dirac(-type) equation for a rank-two bi-spinor field on Minkowski (configuration) spacetime furnishes a Lorentz-covariant quantum-mechanical wave equation in position-space representation for a single free photon. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-04 Michael K. -H. Kiessling , A. Shadi Tahvildar-Zadeh

Photons, i.e. the basic energy quanta of monochromatic waves, are highly non-localised and occupy all available space in one dimension. This non-local property can complicate the modelling of the quantised electromagnetic field in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Jake Southall , Daniel Hodgson , Robert Purdy , Almut Beige

We consider the motion of small bodies in general relativity. The key result captures a sense in which such bodies follow timelike geodesics (or, in the case of charged bodies, Lorentz-force curves). This result clarifies the relationship…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Robert Geroch , James Owen Weatherall

We use the dispersive properties of the linear Schr\"{o}dinger equation to prove local well-posedness results for the Boltzmann equation and the related Boltzmann hierarchy, set in the spatial domain $\mathbb{R}^d$ for $d\geq 2$. The proofs…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-03 Thomas Chen , Ryan Denlinger , Nataša Pavlović

The study addresses the quantum spreading of a localized stationary flow of high energy particles. Results demonstrate that as particle energy increases, the spreading speed of the particle wave packet diminishes rapidly. Concurrently,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 N. F. Shul'ga , S. N. Shulga

Based on the analysis of biquaternion quadratic forms of field, it is shown that Maxwell equations arise as a consequence of the principle of conservation of the energy-momentum flow of field in space-time. It turns out that this principle…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Sergey Y. Kotkovskiy

The concept of local symmetry is a powerful tool in predicting complex transport phenomena in aperiodic media. A nonlocal continuity formalism reveals how local symmetries are encoded into the dynamics of light propagation in discrete…

It is shown that the mean-field description of a boson-fermion mixture with a dominating fermionic component, loaded in a one-dimensional optical lattice, is reduced to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a periodic potential and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. V. Bludov , V. V. Konotop

Motivated by previous investigations on the radiative effects of the electric dipoles embedded in structured cavities, localization of electromagnetic waves in two dimensions is studied {\it ab initio} for a system consisting of many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhen Ye , Sheng Li , Xin Sub

A representation of solutions of the wave equation with two spatial coordinates in terms of localized elementary ones is presented. Elementary solutions are constructed from four solutions with the help of transformations of the affine…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Maria V. Perel , Evgeny A. Gorodnitskiy

A new approach to classical electrodynamics is presented, showing that it can be regarded as a particular case of the most general relativistic force field. In particular, at first it is shown that the structure of the Lorentz force comes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-14 Stefano Re Fiorentin