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The Photon Wave Function

Author(s) -

J. Cug

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

open journal of microphysics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2162-2469

pISSN - 2162-2450

DOI - 10.4236/ojm.2011.13008

Subject(s) - wave function , wave equation , wave mechanics , physics , wave function collapse , lorentz transformation , photon , quantum mechanics , lorentz covariance , component (thermodynamics) , classical mechanics , function (biology) , quantum electrodynamics , quantum , open quantum system , quantum operation , evolutionary biology , biology

The properties of a wave equation for a six-component wave function of a photon are re-analyzed. It is shown that the wave equation presents all the properties required by quantum mechanics, except for the ones that are linked with the definition of the position operator. The situation is contrasted with the three-component formulation based on the Riemann-Silberstein wave function. The inconsistency of the latter with the principles of quantum mechanics is shown to arise from the usual interpretation of the wave function. Finally, the Lorentz invariance of the six-component wave equation is demonstrated explicitly for Lorentz boosts and space inversion

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