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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 carry out the canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field in arbitrary $\xi$-gauge and compute its propagator. In this way we fill a gap in the literature and clarify some existing confusion about Feynman $i\epsilon$ prescription…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-01 Fernando Falceto

Recently two methods have been developed for the quantization of the electromagnetic field in general dispersing and absorbing linear dielectrics. The first is based upon the introduction of a quantum Langevin current in Maxwell's equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Tip , L. Knoll , S. Scheel , D. -G. Welsch

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

A new scheme of field quantization is proposed. Instead of associating with different frequencies different oscillators we begin with a single oscillator that can exist in a superposition of different frequencies. The idea is applied to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marek Czachor

We begin by studying a very simple Hamiltonian for Maxwell's equations that has no gauge fields and is made entirely of the electromagnetic fields. We then show that this theory cannot be quantized. We also show that no other such simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-03 Mahdiyar Noorbala

We develop a non-relativistic quantum field theory of electrons and nuclei based on the Coulomb Hamiltonian. We derive the exact equations of motion and write these equations in the form of Hedin's equations for all species of identical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-12 Ville J. Härkönen

This article presents a comprehensive three-dimensional canonical quantization to treat quantum plasmonics for finite metallic or dielectric media of arbitrary shape. We use a microscopic model for the dissipative and dispersive medium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Georgii Semin , Hans-Rudolf Jauslin , Stephane Guerin

A simple Hamiltonian modeling framework for general models in nonlinear optics is given. This framework is specialized to describe the Hamiltonian structure of electromagnetic phenomena in cubicly nonlinear optical media. The model has a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 William Barham , Yaman Güçlü , Philip J. Morrison , Eric Sonnendrücker

It is shown that the minimal coupling method is equivalent to the Huttner-Barnet and phenomenological approaches up to a canonical transformation.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-15 Fardin Kheirandish , Morteza Soltani

At present, there are many methods of quantum entanglement of particles with an electromagnetic field. Most methods have a low probability of quantum entanglement and not an exact theoretical apparatus based on an approximate solution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Dmitry Makarov

Electromagnetic fields of a massless charged particle are described by a gauge potential that is almost everywhere pure gauge. Solution of quantum mechanical wave equations in the presence of such fields is therefore immediate and leads to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Roman Jackiw , Dan Kabat , Miguel Ortiz

A new method for generating analytical expression of quantum Hamiltonian from non-linear differential equation with stationary energy level has been formulated.Further calculation of energy levels have been carried out analytically using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Biswanath Rath , P. Mallick

There are several possible applications of quantum electrodynamics in dielectric media which require a quantum description for the electromagnetic field interacting with matter fields. The associated quantum models can refer to macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 F. Belgiorno , S. L. Cacciatori , F. Dalla Piazza

In the context of non-relativistic quantum field theory, a method is proposed for multiplying field operators at the same spatial point and obtaining regular (i.e. rigorously defined) interaction terms for the Hamiltonian. The basic idea is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-03 Bruno Galvan

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are central to computational electromagnetics (CEM) and photonic design, but classical solvers face high costs for large or complex structures. Quantum Hamiltonian simulation provides a framework to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Hiroyuki Tezuka , Yuki Sato

The problem of quantizing the radiation field inside a nonlinear dielectric is studied. Based on the quantization of radiation in a linear dielectric which includes absorption and dispersion, we extend the theory in order to treat also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduard Schmidt , Ludwig Knoell , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

We investigate field quantization in high-curvature geometries. The models and calculations can help with understanding the elastic and inelastic scattering of photons and electrons in nanostructures and probe-like metallic domains. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Maryam Bagherian

We present a method, based on Feynman path integrals, to describe the propagation and properties of the quantised electromagnetic field in an arbitrary, nonlinear medium. We provide a general theory, valid for any order of optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Mosbah Difallah , Alexander Szameit , Marco Ornigotti

We consider a non-minimally coupled Einstein-Maxwell gravity with no $U(1)$ symmetry property to study stability of an electrostatic star via canonical quantization approach and obtain that the stability is free of gauge field effects. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Hossein Ghaffarnejad