Timeline for What is the correlation between the wave function of a photon and the vector potential?
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| Jun 17, 2017 at 3:03 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 3, 2017 at 19:03 | comment | added | gented | @garyp Still, there is no "wave function" of the photon (unless by "wave function" you mean something that isn't a wave function). Also, photons emerge as force carriers of the EM field, which is slightly different from excitations. | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 14:33 | comment | added | garyp | @GennaroTedesco If the discussion is about photons, then we are not talking about semi-classical QM, we are discussing QFT in which case all "particles" are excitations of a field: the electron of the electron field (calculated using Schrodinger's Equation), the photon of the EM field (the harmonic field whose physical shape is determined by Maxwell's equations). So is this issue merely semantics? | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 6:27 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 5:39 | answer | added | Zohaib Aarfi | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 11:21 | comment | added | ACuriousMind♦ | Related/possible duplicate: physics.stackexchange.com/q/28616/50583 and its linked questions. | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 11:20 | comment | added | gented | There is no such thing as a wave function for a photon. A photon is the force carrier of the electromagnetic field and is automatically introduced by QFT: in quantum mechanics (or even worse classical electromagnetism) there is no photon. | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 11:12 | history | asked | Lello | CC BY-SA 3.0 |