Quantizing the EM-Field: Eigenvalues Explained

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I have just read the section in my book on quantizing the EM-field. Here the electric and magnetic field becomes operators. But what does their eigenvalues express? Is it the value of the E- and B-field, respectively?


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I have just read the section in my book on quantizing the EM-field. Here the electric and magnetic field becomes operators. But what does their eigenvalues express? Is it the value of the E- and B-field, respectively?

Their _possible_ values, as for every operator representing an observable.
 

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