Localization of Massless Spinning Particles and the Berry Phase

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dc.creatorSkagerstam, Bo-Sture K
dc.date1992-10-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T04:18:54Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T04:18:54Z
dc.descriptionThe components of the position operator, at a fixed time, for a massless and spinning particle with given helicity $λ$ described in terms of bosonic degrees of freedom have an anomalous commutator proportional to $λ$. 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.
dc.description22 pages, ITP 92-09, LaTeX
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9210054
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9210054
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/53380
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleLocalization of Massless Spinning Particles and the Berry Phase
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