Photon physics: from wave mechanics to quantum electrodynamics

Ole Keller

doi:10.1117/12.833543

18 May 2009 Photon physics: from wave mechanics to quantum electrodynamics

Ole Keller

Proceedings Volume 7355, Photon Counting Applications, Quantum Optics, and Quantum Information Transfer and Processing II; 735502 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.833543
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

When rewritten in an appropriate manner, the microscopic Maxwell-Lorentz equations appear as a wave-mechanical theory for photons, and their quantum physical interaction with matter. A natural extension leads from photon wave mechanics to quantum electrodynamics (QED). In its modern formulation photon wave mechanics has given us valuable new insight in subjects such as spatial photon localization, near-field photon dynamics, transverse photon mass, photon eikonal theory, photon tunneling, and rim-zone electrodynamics. The present review is based on my plenary lecture at the SPIE-Europe 2009 Optics and Optoelectronics International Symposium in Prague.

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Ole Keller "Photon physics: from wave mechanics to quantum electrodynamics", Proc. SPIE 7355, Photon Counting Applications, Quantum Optics, and Quantum Information Transfer and Processing II, 735502 (18 May 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.833543

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