Phase properties of some photon states with nonzero energy density
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 15 (12) , 2079-2085
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1666585
Abstract
We describe some photon states with nonzero energy density in the whole space; these states are obtained by taking a finite number of photons within a finite box and letting the volume and the number of photons go to infinity according to usual procedure in statistical mechanics. In such a limit we describe an observable phase operator; we investigate its properties both in the case of free field and in the case of coupling with prescribed classical sources. Finally we give a quantum description of uniform static field.Keywords
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