The Maxwell wave function of the photon

Details The Maxwell wave function of the photon The Maxwell wave function of the photon

2006-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0604169v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

SPIE conference Optics and Photonics, Conference number 5866, The Nature of Light: What is a Photon?" (San Diego, Aug. 2005)

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James Clerk Maxwell unknowingly discovered a correct relativistic, quantum theory for the light quantum, forty-three years before Einstein postulated the photon's existence. In this theory, the usual Maxwell field is the quantum wave function for a single photon. When the non-operator Maxwell field of a single photon is second quantized, the standard Dirac theory of quantum optics is obtained. Recently, quantum-state tomography has been applied to experimentally determine photon wave functions.

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