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A canonical formalism for quantum electrodynamics in curved spacetime is developed. This formalism enables a systematic investigation of photons in the Schwarzschild gravitational field, yielding novel results as well as refining previous…

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The article consider an interpretation of Majorana equations as a quantum Lorentz covariant equations for the field of Einstein photon. A photon with "deinterlaced" spins (with diagonal Hamiltonian) is considered, its generalized Green…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Aleksandr Beilinson

We show, following a previous quantization of a vacuum spherically symmetric spacetime carried out in Ref. \cite{gop}, that this setting admits a Schr\"odinger-like picture. More precisely, the technique adopted there for the definition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin

This article is provides an introduction to the quantum theory of optics in nonlinear dielectric media. We begin with a short summary of the classical theory of nonlinear optics, that is nonlinear optics done with classical fields. We then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Mark Hillery

In this article, we are interested in a spin model including the quantized electromagnetic field (photons). With this model of quantum electrodynamics (QED) related to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) we give explicit quantum radiative…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Laurent Amour , Lisette Jager , Jean Nourrigat

New insight to the principles of the quantum physics development is given. The correct ways for the construction of new versions of quantum mechanics on the second main postulate base are discussed. The conclusion on the status of the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 Dmitri Yerchuck , Alla Dovlatova , Felix Borovik , Yauhen Yerchak , Vyacheslav Stelmakh

A quantum inequality for the quantized electromagnetic field is developed for observers in static curved spacetimes. The quantum inequality derived is a generalized expression given by a mode function expansion of the four-vector potential,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael J. Pfenning

The conventional, time-dependent Schroedinger equation describes only unidirectional time evolution of the state of a physical system, i.e., forward or, less commonly, backward. This paper proposes a generalized quantum dynamics for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. E. Hahne

The inexactness of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation of a charged particle in an external electromagnetic field is discussed in terms of the damping effect of the radiation. A possible improvement is to add a nonlinear term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-07 Ji Luo

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

Maxwell's equations in the vacuum can be formally cast in the form of Schr\"odinger's equation. Unfortunately, the vector to which this equation directly applies is not a wavefunction: its amplitude squared is not a probability density but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Stéphane Virally

Interactions between charged particles and light occur in real space and time, yet quantum field theory usually describes them in momentum space. Whereas this approach is well suited for calculating emission probabilities and cross…

The d-dimensional generalization of the point canonical transformation for a quantum particle endowed with a position-dependent mass in Schrodinger equation is described. Illustrative examples including; the harmonic oscillator, Coulomb,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Omar Mustafa , S. Habib Mazharimousavi

The eletromagnetic field in a linear absorptive dielectric medium, is quantized in the framework of the damped polarization model. A Hamiltonian containing a reservoir with continuous degrees of freedom, is proposed. The reservoir minimally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Kheirandish , M. Amooshahi

Quantum electrodynamics is the well-accepted theory. However, we feel it is useful to look at formalisms that provide alternative ways to describe light, because in the recent years the development of quantum field theories based primarily…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valeri V. Dvoeglazov

We find explicit solutions of the Heisenberg equations of motion for a quadratic Hamiltonian, describing a generic model of variable media, in the case of multi-parameter squeezed input photon configuration. The corresponding probability…

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In this work, we investigate the photoionization cross-section of an electron confined in a quantum dot, considering the position-dependent variation of the effective mass through the parameter $\gamma$. We used a theoretical model based on…

Although electrons and photons produce the same interference patterns in the two-slit experiments, the description of these patters is markedly different. This difference was analyzed by Bohm. Later on Sanz and Miret-Artes and others were…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Arkady L. Kholodenko

Coherent states are a well-established tool of quantum optics to describe electromagnetic waves in terms of photons. However, they do not describe the near-field regime of radiation sources. Instead, we generically use classical solutions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Rainer Dick

A Schr\"odinger-picture description of the evolving quantum state of Hawking radiation is given, based on an ADM decomposition using time slicings that smoothly cross the horizon. This treatment avoids requiring a role for trans-planckian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Steven B. Giddings