Quantum Mechanical Properties of Bessel Beams

Details Quantum Mechanical Properties of Bessel Beams Quantum Mechanical Properties of Bessel Beams

2004-04-02

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404017v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

17 pages, no figures. New version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.71.033411

Bessel beams are studied within the general framework of quantum optics. The two modes of the electromagnetic field are quantized and the basic dynamical operators are identified. The algebra of these operators is analyzed in detail; it is shown that the operators that are usually associated to linear momentum, orbital angular momentum and spin do not satisfy the algebra of the translation and rotation group. In particular, what seems to be the spin is more similar to the helicity. Some physical consequences of these results are examined.

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