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理解光量子:光子

Understanding light quanta: The Photon

A. C. de la Torre

摘要:

定义了一个反对称张量,即光子张量,用来描述光子是无质量的相对论性粒子。光子可以被看作是一个基本上二维的旋转物体。给出了单光子的量子力学描述,指出将光子的量子态与宏观电磁场联系起来是错误的。这项工作是一系列致力于试图理解电磁辐射的量子的一部分,基于光子是主要本体论和电磁场是光子系综的宏观涌现性质的假设。

英文摘要:

An antisymmetric tensor, the photon tensor, is defined for the description of the photon as a massless relativistic particle. The photon can be visualized as an essentially two dimensional rotating object. The quantum mechanical description of a single photon is presented and it is shown that it is wrong to associate the quantum states of a photon with the macroscopic electromagnetic fields. This work is part of a series devoted to the attempt to understand the quantum of electromagnetic radiation, based on the assumption that the photons are the primary ontology and that the electromagnetic fields are macroscopic emergent properties of an ensemble of photons.

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