Localization of the photon on phase space

DOI10.1063/1.531759MaRDI QIDQ5284669zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. A. Brooke, F. E. jun. Schroeck

Publication date 22 January 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.531759

zbMATH Keywords

covariant phase space localization operatorhelicitiesPoincaré groupquantization schemezero mass particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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• Localizability, gauge symmetry and Newton-Wigner operator for massless particles
• Photon localisation, the Pryce operator and the Aharonov-Bohm effect
• Space localization of the photon
• The phase space formalism for quantum mechanics and \(C^*\) axioms
• Perspectives: Quantum mechanics on phase space
• The momentum operators corresponding to a localized massless particle
• Localization of relativistic systems
• Localization of relativistic particles
• Mass quantization and Lorentz group
• Electromagnetic field expectations as measures of photon localization
• Quantum mechanics of a photon
• Fields on the Poincaré group: Arbitrary spin description and relativistic wave equations
• Photon localization revisited

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