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Is there a good classical description of a photon?
Is there a QM description of the photon? The QM models I have seen are essentially correlations stating that a photon has spin h/ and momentum hf/c. A useful model should at least calculate the probability that two photons will collide to produce a particle/antiparticle pair. -
Is there a good classical description of a photon?
You raise an interesting point about the adjustment between near field and far field. Apparently, at least in the case of spatial patterning, the reduction in propagation speed below c persists, and OAM is likely an enhancement to circular polarization. These interactions seem to be... -
Is there a good classical description of a photon?
The optics of interference and diffraction are based on a model in which light is a plane wave. This model produces amazingly accurate results considering its complete lack of physicality. Now that experimentalists are producing Orbital Angular Momentum and Spatial Patterning in the lab, it... -
Is there a good classical description of a photon?
The QED theories merely state that a photon has spin and momentum. Are there any reasonable mechanistic descriptions, perhaps in terms of variations of E and H beyond the infinite plane wave (which is also not helpful)?