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In this second paper in a series, we show that the the general statistical approach to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics developed in the first paper yields a representation of quantum spin and magnetic moments based on classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 G. H. Goedecke

In the many worlds community seems to exist a belief that the physics of a quantum theory is completely defined by it's Hamilton operator given in an abstract Hilbert space, especially that the position basis may be derived from it as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 Ilja Schmelzer

A system of $N$ non-canonical dynamically free 3D harmonic oscillators is studied. The position and the momentum operators (PM-operators) of the system do not satisfy the canonical commutation relations (CCRs). Instead they obey the weaker…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 T. D. Palev

Time-dependent terms in Hamiltonians and equations of motion are rather important for a quantum-mechanical description of particles with arbitrary spins in nonstationary fields. We use the Foldy-Wouthuysen representation which allows one to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Alexander J. Silenko

It is shown that the quantum jumps in the photon number n from zero to one or more photons induced by backaction evasion quantum nondemolition measurements of a quadrature component x of the vacuum light field state are strongly correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Holger F. Hofmann , Takayoshi Kobayashi , Akira Furusawa

Applications that envisage utilizing the orbital angular momentum (OAM) at the single photon level assume that the OAM degrees of freedom that the photons inherit from the classical wave solutions are orthogonal. To test this critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Alexander Punnoose , Jiufeng J. Tu

We identify momentum/helicity probability amplitudes for the photon and find their relativistic transformation properties. We also find their behaviour under space inversion and time reversal. The discussion begins with a review of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Scott E. Hoffmann

Aim of this paper is trying to show the possible significance, and usefulness, of various non-selfadjoint operators for suitable Observables in non-relativistic and relativistic quantum mechanics, and in quantum electrodynamics: More…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 Erasmo Recami , Michel Zamboni-Rached , Ignazio Licata

A `covariant' field that transforms like a relativistic field operator is required to be a linear combination of `canonical' fields that transform like annihilation and creation operators and with invariant coefficients. The Invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Shurtleff

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

We derive a relativistic-covariant spin operator for massive case directly from space-time symmetry in Minkowski space-time and investigate the physical properties of a derived spin operator. In the derivation we require only two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taeseung Choi , Yeong Deok Han

Uncertainty relation for photons that overcomes the difficulties caused by the nonexistence of the photon position operator is derived in quantum electrodynamics. The photon energy density plays the role of the probability density in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-05 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

Generic arguments lead to the idea that quantum gravity has a minimal length scale. A possible observational signal of such a minimal length scale is that photons should exhibit dispersion. In 2009 the observation of a short gamma ray burst…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Michael Bishop , Joey Contreras , Jaeyeong Lee , Douglas Singleton

We consider a free photon field in $D$-dimensional de Sitter space, and construct its propagator in the general covariant gauge. Canonical quantization is employed to define the system starting from the classical theory. This guarantees…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Dražen Glavan , Tomislav Prokopec

We re-examine three issues, the Hopf term, fractional spin and the soliton operators, in the 2+1 dimensional O(3) nonlinear sigma model based on the adjoint orbit parameterization (AOP) introduced earlier. It is shown that the Hopf Term is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Izumi Tsutsui , Masaomi Kimura , Hiroyuki Kobayashi

The relativistic two-component equation describing the free motion of particles with zero mass and spin 1/2, which is P- and T-non-invariant but C-invariant, is found. The representation of the Poincare group for zero mass and discrete spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wilhelm I. Fushchych

In quantum mechanics, the operator representing the displacement of a system in position or momentum is always accompanied by a path-dependent phase factor. In particular, two non-parallel displacements in phase space do not compose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Amar C. Vutha , Eliot A. Bohr , Anthony Ransford , Wesley C. Campbell , Paul Hamilton

Commuting and noncommuting space-time coordinates in a class of deformed special relativity theories are investigated. Their momentum space representation, transformation behaviour, space-time algebra, invariants and the corresponding field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-13 Clemens Heuson

We present a calculation of the generalized parton distributions of the photon when there is non-zero momentum transfer both in the transverse and longitudinal directions. We consider only the contributions when the photon helicity is not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-08 Asmita Mukherjee , Sreeraj Nair

The difficulties encountered up till now in the theory of identifying the spin and orbital angular momentum of the photon stem from the approach of dividing the angular momentum of the photon into spin and orbital parts. Here we derive the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Chun-Fang Li