Photon dynamics
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 25 (4) , 2164-2167
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.25.2164
Abstract
A theory of the motion of photons in physical space is presented. Operators representing the photon density and the photon current density are defined in terms of a pair of vector field operators in much the same way as the energy density and the Poynting vector are defined in terms of the electric and magnetic fields. For polychromatic light, this theory predicts an ideal photon-counting rate which differs from that of the usual theory of photoelectron counting.Keywords
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