I see in many textbooks that all authors start field quantization with EM field confined in a cube of finite size, certainly some B.C. is imposed, usually periodic B.C., finally the cube goes to whole space.
I have some questions on this procedure:
1, Is periodic(or other) B.C. reasonable...
It is said that two eigenstates of spin correspond to two kinds of circularly polarized states, but I don't know the details too.
Anyone knows what subject deals with this stuff?
Thank u!