Localization of Massless Spinning Particles and the Berry Phase

Details Localization of Massless Spinning Particles and the Berry Phase Localization of Massless Spinning Particles and the Berry Phase

1992-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9210054v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

22 pages, ITP 92-09, LaTeX

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The components of the position operator, at a fixed time, for a massless and spinning particle with given helicity $\lambda$ described in terms of bosonic degrees of freedom have an anomalous commutator proportional to $\lambda$. The position operator generates translations in momentum space. We show that a ray-representation for these translations emerges due to the non-commuting components of the position operators and relate this to the Berry-phase for photons. The Tomita-Chiao experiment then gives support for this relativistic and quantum mechanical description of photons in terms of non-commuting position operators.

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