A Comment on the "Photon position operator with commuting components" by Margaret Hawton
Quantum Physics
2022-04-04 v2
Abstract
We show that the position operator with commuting components proposed by M. Hawton [M. Hawton, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 59}, 954 (1999)] and developed in subsequent papers, including the recent ones, does not have the properties required for a photon position operator. Depending on the exact interpretation of the results it either concerns a triplet of massless spin zero particles rather than the photon, or does not have the required covariance properties under space rotations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2203.14555,
title = {A Comment on the "Photon position operator with commuting components" by Margaret Hawton},
author = {A. Jadczyk and A. M. Schlichtinger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14555},
year = {2022}
}
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