Roychoudhuri / Kracklauer / Creath The Nature of Light

What is a Photon?
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4200-4425-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 452 Seiten

Reihe: Optical Science and Engineering

Focusing on the unresolved debate between Newton and Huygens from 300 years ago, The Nature of Light: What is a Photon? discusses the reality behind enigmatic photons. It explores the fundamental issues pertaining to light that still exist today. Gathering contributions from globally recognized specialists in electrodynamics and quantum optics, the book begins by clearly presenting the mainstream view of the nature of light and photons. It then provides a new and challenging scientific epistemology that explains how to overcome the prevailing paradoxes and confusions arising from the accepted definition of a photon as a monochromatic Fourier mode of the vacuum. The book concludes with an array of experiments that demonstrate the innovative thinking needed to examine the wave-particle duality of photons. Looking at photons from both mainstream and out-of-box viewpoints, this volume is sure to inspire the next generation of quantum optics scientists and engineers to go beyond the Copenhagen interpretation and formulate new conceptual ideas about light–matter interactions and substantiate them through inventive applications.

Zielgruppe

Engineers, scientists, and graduates students in quantum optics; physicists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roychoudhuri, Chandra

Kracklauer, A.F.

Creath, Kathy

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Atom- und Molekülphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Critical review of the mainstream photon model
Light Reconsidered
Arthur Zajonc
What Is a Photon?
Rodney Loudon
What Is a Photon?
David Finkelstein
The Concept of the Photon—Revisited
Ashok Muthukrishnan, Marlan O. Scully, and M. Suhail Zubairy
A Photon Viewed from Wigner Phase Space
Holger Mack and Wolfgang P. Schleich
Epistemological origin of logical contradictions
Inevitable Incompleteness of All Theories: An Epistemology to Continuously Refine Human Logics Toward Cosmic Logics
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri
Exploring photons beyond mainstream views
“Single Photons” Have Not Been Detected: The Alternative “Photon Clump” Model
Emilio Panarella
What Is a Photon?
C. Rangacharyulu
Oh Photon, Photon, Whither Art Thou Gone?
A.F. Kracklauer
A Conclusive Experiment on Wave-Particle Duality of Light?
Giorgio Brida, Marco Genovese, Marco Gramegna, and Enrico Predazzi
The Photon Wave Function
Ashok Muthukrishnan, Marlan O. Scully, and M. Suhail Zubairy
Photons Are Fluctuations of a Random (Zeropoint) Radiation Filling the Whole Space
Emilio Santos
Violation of the Principle of Complementarity and Its Implications
Shahriar S. Afshar
The Bohr Model of the Photon
Geoffrey Hunter, Marian Kowalski, and Camil Alexandrescu
The Maxwell Wave Function of the Photon
M.G. Raymer and Brian J. Smith
Modeling Light Entangled in Polarization and Frequency: Case Study in Quantum Cryptography
John M. Myers
Photon–The Minimum Dose of Electromagnetic Radiation
Tuomo Suntola
Propagating Topological Singularities: Photons
R.M. Kiehn
The Photon: A Virtual Reality
David L. Andrews
The Photon and Its Measurability
Edward Henry Dowdye, Jr.
Phase Coherence in Multiple Scattering: Weak and Intense Monochromatic Light Wave Propagating in Cold Strontium Cloud
David Wilkowski, Yannick Bidel, Thierry Chanelière, Robin Kaiser,
Bruce Klappauf, and Christian Miniatura
The Nature of Light: Description of Photon Diffraction Based upon Virtual Particle Exchange
Michael J. Mobley

B.P. Kosyakov
From Quantum to Classical: Watching a Single Photon Become a Wave
Marco Bellini, Alessandro Zavatta, and Silvia Viciani
If Superposed Light Beams Do Not Redistribute Their Energy in the Absence of Detectors (Material Dipoles), Can a Single Indivisible Photon Interfere?
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri
What Processes Are behind Energy Redirection and Redistribution in Interference and Diffraction?
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri
Do We Count Indivisible Photons or Discrete Quantum Events Experienced by Detectors?
Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri and Negussie Tirfessa
Direct Measurement of Light Waves
E. Goulielmakis, M. Uiberacker, R. Kienberger, A. Baltuska, V. Yakovlev, A. Scrinzi, Th. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher, and F. Krausz
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