Quantum wave equation of photon

DOI10.1007/S10773-009-0192-XMaRDI QIDQ2268433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiang-Yao Wu, Xiaojing Liu, Yi-Heng Wu, Qing-Cai Wang, Yan Wang, Li-Xin Chi

Publication date 8 March 2010

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2429

zbMATH Keywords

photonic crystalquantum wave equationphoton wave function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Quantum optics (81V80) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

Abstract: In this paper, we give the quantum wave equations of single photon when it is in the free or medium space. With these equations, we can study light interference and diffraction with quantum approach. Otherwise, they can be applied in quantum optics and photonic crystal.

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