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arXiv 1710.06207quant-ph
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真空源场关联与量子光学中的先进波

Vacuum source-field correlations and advanced waves in quantum optics

Adam Stokes

摘要:

在初始时刻t=0时,波动方程作为具有指定场的柯西问题的解是纯滞后的。类似地,在辐射的量子理论中,用t=0时的算符来描述时间t> 0时的海森伯图像光子湮灭和产生算符,会自动产生纯延迟的源场。然而,我们表明,两个时间之间的延迟源场的固定偶极子和量子真空场的量子关联具有先进的类波的贡献。尽管这些关联具有先进的性质,但它们与爱因斯坦的因果关系完全一致。结果表明,虽然他们没有显着的贡献,在真空状态下的光检测振幅,他们的影响统计测量涉及的辐射力所经历的点电荷在该领域的偶极子。具体而言,分散在电荷的动量被发现随时间增加。这就有可能获得物理现实中存在高级波的直接实验证据,并提供了真空量子性质的另一个特征。

英文摘要:

The solution to the wave equation as a Cauchy problem with prescribed fields at an initial time t=0 is purely retarded. Similarly, in the quantum theory of radiation the specification of Heisenberg picture photon annihilation and creation operators at time t>0 in terms of operators at t=0 automatically yields purely retarded source-fields. However, we show that two-time quantum correlations between the retarded source-fields of a stationary dipole and the quantum vacuum-field possess advanced wave-like contributions. Despite their advanced nature, these correlations are perfectly consistent with Einstein causality. It is shown that while they do not significantly contribute to photo-detection amplitudes in the vacuum state, they do effect the statistics of measurements involving the radiative force experienced by a point charge in the field of the dipole. Specifically, the dispersion in the charge's momentum is found to increase with time. This entails the possibility of obtaining direct experimental evidence for the existence of advanced waves in physical reality, and provides yet another signature of the quantum nature of the vacuum.

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