Understanding interference experiments with polarized light through photon trajectories
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Understanding interference experiments with polarized light through photon trajectories
Bohmian mechanics allows to visualize and understand the quantum-mechanical behavior of massive particles in terms of trajectories. As shown by Bialynicki-Birula, Electromagnetism also admits a hydrodynamical formulation when the existence of a wave function for photons (properly defined) is assumed. This formulation thus provides an alternative interpretation of optical phenomena in terms of p...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Physics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0003-4916
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2009.12.005