Photon Position Operator and Localization of Photons inside a Waveguide

Simple item page
dc.creatorWang, Zhi-Yong
dc.creatorXiong, Cai-Dong
dc.creatorKeller, Ole
dc.date2005-11-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:52:55Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T06:52:55Z
dc.descriptionIn this article, we show that in the level of quantum mechanics, a photon position operator with commuting components can be obtained in a more natural way; in the level of quantum field theory, the photon position operator corresponds to the center of the photon number. It is most interesting for us to show that, a photon inside a waveguide can be localized in the same sense that a massive particle can be localized in free space, and just as that it is impossible to localize a massive particle with a greater precision than its Compton wavelength, one can also arrival at a similar conclusion: it is impossible to localize a photon inside a waveguide with a greater precision than its equivalent Compton wavelength, which owing to evanescent-wave or photon-tunneling phenomena.
dc.description22 pages, 1 figure
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0511270
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0511270
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/105456
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titlePhoton Position Operator and Localization of Photons inside a Waveguide
dc.typetext

Files

Collections

arXiv