Photon wave functions
Abstract
We argue that a photon wave function can be introduced if one is willing to redefine, in what we feel is a physically meaningful way, what one wishes to mean by such a wave function. The generation of a photon wave function by a spontaneously emitting atom is discussed.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- September 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.52.1875
- Bibcode:
- 1995PhRvA..52.1875S
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Ca;
- 42.50.-p;
- 42.25.Md;
- Formalism;
- Quantum optics