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We introduce observables associated with the space-time position of a quantum point defined by the intersection of two light pulses. The time observable is canonically conjugated to the energy. Conformal symmetry of massless quantum fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

The equations of parallel transport for a non-linear connection on phase space are examined. It is shown that, for a free-particle Lagrangian, the connection term first-order in momentum reproduces the geodesic equation of General…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John H. van Drie

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

For a relativistic particle under a constant force and a linear velocity dissipation force, a constant of motion is found. Problems are shown for getting the Hamiltoninan of this system. Thus, the quantization of this system is carried out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-19 Gustavo López , Xaman-Ek López , Hector Hernández

Does the measurement of a quantum system necessarily break Lorentz invariance? We present a simple model of a detector that measures the spacetime localization of a relativistic particle in a Lorentz invariant manner. The detector does not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Donald Marolf , Carlo Rovelli

It is demonstrated that the nature of optical parametric amplification is a quantum phenomenon. The system Lagrangian can be constructed by the path integral of coherent state. The equations of motion for photon operators are indeed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Fuyong Wang

The motion of spinning relativistic particles in external electromagnetic and gravitational fields is considered. Covariant equations for this motion are demonstrated to possess pathological solutions, when treated nonperturbatively in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. B. Khriplovich

In near-field optics and optical tunneling theory, photon wave mechanics, i.e., the first quantized theory of the photon, allows us to address the spatial field localization problem in a flexible manner which links smoothly to classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Zhi-Yong Wang , Cai-Dong Xiong , Ole Keller

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

An equation is obtained to find the Lagrangian for a one-dimensional autonomous system. The continuity of the first derivative of its constant of motion is assumed. This equation is solved for a generic nonconservative autonomous system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Gonzalez

The well known relation of Einstein relativistic energy for a free particle is extended to cover the total relativistic energy of a bound particle by calculating the relativistic potential energy. A non dissipative harmonic oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-07 J. Jahanpanah

The formulation of a dynamical theory of General Relativity, including matter, is viewed as a problem of coupling Einstein's theory of pure gravity, formulated as an action principle, to an independently chosen and well defined field theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-28 Christian Frønsdal

The Lagrangian relativistic direct interaction theory in the various forms of dynamics is formulated and its connections with the Fokker-type action theory and with the constrained Hamiltonian mechanics are established. The motion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. Duviryak , V. Shpytko , V. Tretyak

Based on the physical interpretation of the photon continuity equation derived in [M. Hawton, Phys. Rev. A 109, 062221 (2024) ] the standard Lagrangian is second quantized to obtain a Lorentz and gauge invariant theory of single photons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Margaret Hawton

We present a systematic derivation of the constraints that the relativity principle imposes between coefficients of a deformed (but rotational invariant) momentum composition law, dispersion relation, and momentum transformation laws, at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-08 J. M. Carmona , J. L. Cortes , B. Romeo

The work contains a detailed investigation of free neutral (Hermitian) or charged (non-Hermitian) scalar fields and the describing them (system of) Klein-Gordon equation(s) in momentum picture of motion. A form of the field equation(s) in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Bozhidar Z. Iliev

The special theory of relativity does not predict the existence of photons (quanta of electromagnetic radiation). However, it is demonstrated here that it follows from the special theory of relativity that if photons do exist---and we know…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 I. Mayer

We attempt to see how closely we can formally obtain the planetary and light path equations of General Relativity by employing certain operations on the familiar Newtonian equation. This article is intended neither as an alternative to nor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 K. K. Nandi , N. G. Migranov , J. C. Evans , M. K. Amedeker

In the light front quantisation scheme initial conditions are usually provided on a single lightlike hyperplane. This, however, is insufficient to yield a unique solution of the field equations. We investigate under which additional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Heinzl , E. Werner

The quantum conditions of the relativistic integrable systems whose classical motion is multiply periodic are given by considering the single-valuedness of the linear superposition of the approximate solutions $R_{i}\exp {\{iS_{i}/\hbar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 De-Hone Lin
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