Photon wave function and position eigenvectors

2006/09/11 by Margaret Hawton, Hawton, Margaret
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Molecular Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0609086

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Abstract

One and two photon wave functions are obtained by projection onto a basis of simultaneous eigenvectors of the position and number operators.

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