Who has seen a free photon?

• Ojima Izumi

  Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University

• Saigo Hayato

  Nagahama Institute of the Bio-Science and Technology

抄録

While the notion of the position of photons is indispensable in the quantum optical situations, it has been known in mathematical physics that any position operator cannot be denned for a massless free particle with a non-zero finite spin. This dilemma is resolved by introducing the "effective mass" of a photon due to the interaction with matter. The validity of this interpretation is confirmed in reference to the picture of "polariton", a basic notion in optical and solid physics.

収録刊行物

• 素粒子論研究

  素粒子論研究 119 (4A), D180-D188, 2012

  素粒子論グループ 素粒子論研究 編集部

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• CRID: 1390282679047834752
• NII論文ID: 110009418990
• NII書誌ID: AN00135266
• DOI: 10.24532/soken.119.4a_d180
• ISSN: 24332895
• ISSN: 03711838
• NDL書誌ID: 023439875
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I023439875
• 本文言語コード: en
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