Photon Phenomenology |
Photon Propagation in General
> s.a. diffraction; dispersion;
interference; light [including special
propagation physics; orbital L]; wave phenomena.
* In modified QED vacua:
In the low-energy (\(\hbar\omega \ll m_{\rm e}c^2)\) approximation,
the speed of propagation can be written as
v = 1 − (44α2/135) (u / me4) ,
where u is the (renormalized) background energy density, and
the coefficient is related to the trace anomaly of the energgy-momentum
tensor, for weak background fields.
@ General references: Cialdi et al NJP(09) [superluminal propagation];
Zhang et al PRL(11)
+ news physorg(11)jun [not superluminal];
Razmi & Zamani IJPR-a1308 [QED corrections at low temperature];
Karbstein & Shaisultanov PRD(15)-a1503 [in slowly-varying inhomogeneous electromagnetic fields].
@ In modified QED vacua: Latorre et al NPB(95)ht/94;
Gies & Dittrich PLB(98)hp,
Dittrich & Gies PRD(98)hp [non-trivial];
Cougo-Pinto et al PLB(99);
Shukla et al PLA(04) [radiation background];
Cho et al PRD(06) [constant E and B];
Mendonça et al PLA(06);
> s.a. casimir effect.
@ Interaction with matter in general:
Chen & Kotlarchyk 07;
Saldanha & Monken NJP(11) [photon-wave-function approach].
@ Effective mass: van der Mark & 't Hooft
in(00)-a1508 [on its gravitational mass];
Robles & Claro EJP(12) [apparent dynamical mass];
news ns(13)oct [photons with negative effective mass];
Katkov NIMB(15)-a1403 [in a strong magnetic field];
> s.a. photon [mass].
@ Non-linear media: Carusotto & Ciuti RMP(13) [quantum fluids of light];
Liang et al Sci(18)feb-a1709 [bound states];
Carusotto Phys(20)apr [dressed
by material excitations into polaron-polaritons, strongly interacting extended quasiparticles].
@ Special types of media:
Antoci & Mihich NCB(01)gq [dielectrics, effective metric];
Özel ApJ(03)ap/02 [magnetized plasmas and quantum field theory];
Sudheesh et al JOB(05)qp [Kerr-like medium, non-classical aspects];
Inagaki NCB(03) [refractive];
Antoci & Mihich NCB(07)-a0705 [dielectrics];
Zheng a1305 [dilute ionized gas].
> Related topics:
see aharonov-bohm effect; gas;
polarization [including birefringence, dichroism];
Raman and Rayleigh Scattering;
thermal radiation [Stefan-Boltzmann law for massive photons];
thermodynamic systems.
In Curved Spacetime / Cosmology > s.a. light;
Raychaudhuri Equation; torsion in physics.
@ In Schwarzschild spacetime: Sehra gq/06;
Turakulov & Muminov MPLA(06);
Muminov & Turakulov MPLA(07)-a0706;
> s.a. kerr-newman solutions.
@ In swiss-cheese models: Brouzakis et al JCAP(08)-ap/07;
Marra et al PRD(07)-a0708;
Szybka PRD(11)-a1012 [Lemaître-Tolman solutions, numerical].
@ In other curved spacetime: Gibbons PLB(93) [cosmic strings];
Manzano & Montemayor PRD(97) [rotating mass];
Mohanty & Prasanna NPB(98)gq;
Okun MPLA(00),
MPLA(00) [static gravitational fields];
Kopeikin et al CQG(06)gq [in multipole fields];
de Felice et al ApJ(06)ap [Solar System];
Ahmadi et al JCAP(08)gq/06 [in general, and NUT space];
Crosta CQG(11)-a1012 [light tracing];
Shalaby a1205
[propagation in a universe with discrete matter content];
Linet & Teyssandier CQG(13)-a1304,
Teyssandier & Linet a1312-proc
[light travel time in static, spherically symmetric spacetimes];
> s.a. FLRW spacetimes.
@ Curved-spacetime propagation effects:
Shore NPB(02),
NPB(02),
CP(03)gq [causality];
Ahmadi & Nouri-Zonoz PRD(06)gq [effective Raychaudhuri equation];
Hollowood et al JHEP(09)-a0905 [quantum effects on refractive index];
Hollowood & Shore PLB(10)-a1005 [effect of gravitational tidal forces];
Galaverni & Gionti a2012 [quantum anomalies and helicity].
@ Photon mass and cosmology:
Dolgov & Pelliccia PLB(07)hp/06 [consequences];
Kouwn et al PRD(16)-a1512 [as dark energy].
@ Dark photon: Lees et BaBar PRL(14)
+ Bryman Phy(14) [search in \(e^+e^-\) collisions, not found];
news LiveSci(15)feb,
LiveSci(18)apr [not found];
> s.a. dark-matter types.
@ Related topics:
Chatterjee et al MNRAS(17)-a1706 [time lag from astrophysical source];
news cosmos(18)nov [total number of photons in the universe];
> s.a. cosmic rays [including ultra-high energy];
QED in curved spacetime; quantum-gravity phenomenology.
Quantum Effects
> s.a. atomic physics; effective field theory;
experiments in quantum mechanics; locality;
QED phenomenology.
* Entanglement: What is really
entangled in an entangled state of light is not the photons [@ van Enk].
@ Wave / particle aspects: Arnaud AJP(74)jan [momentum];
Milonni in(83);
Ghose et al PLA(91),
PLA(92);
Mizobuchi & Ohtaké PLA(92);
Lamb APB(95) [against "photon" as a particle];
Razmi qp/98 [position and momentum];
Nisius PRP(00) [structure from e scattering];
Glück et al PLB(01) [structure functions];
Carmichael qp/01-conf [fluctuations];
Roncadelli et al JPCS(10)-a1002 [possible oscillation into light axionlike particle];
Brevik a1310-fs [momentum in media];
> s.a. axion; interference;
quantum mechanics [wave-particle duality].
@ Photon-photon scattering: Rosen AJP(66)sep;
Bern et al JHEP(01) [QCD and QED corrections];
Binoth et al JHEP(02) [susy QED, 2-loop];
Brodin et al PLA(03) [light bullets],
PRD(06)gq [graviton-mediated];
Lundström et al PRL(06) [proposed experiment];
d'Enterria & da Silveira PRL(13),
news sn(17)aug [at the LHC];
Vavilov tr-a1708 [optical experiment];
Scharnhorst a1711.
@ Entanglement:
Bouwmeester et al PRL(99) [3-photon];
van Enk PRA(03)qp/02,
qp/04-conf,
& Hirota PRA(05)qp/04;
Eisenberg et al PRL(04)qp [many photons];
Sun & Kuang ChP(06)qp/05 [and non-locality];
Franson PRL(06) [two-photon absorption];
Zhang et al JPB(06)qp [in cavity QED];
Lvovsky Phy(09)
[viewpoint, 6-photon states immune from environmental decoherence];
Samblowski et al AIP(11)-a1011 [light of two colors];
Barrett Phy(11) [photons stored in spatially separated superconducting resonators];
Morin et al PRL(13)-a1206 [single-photon entanglement];
Fickler et al Nat(12)nov-a1207 [with very high orbital angular momenta];
Megidish et al PRL(13)-a1209 [pair of photons that never coexisted];
Iskhakov et al PRL(12)
+ news pw(12)oct [light pulses comprising 100,000 entangled photons];
Mitchell & Beduini NJP(14)-a1304 [highly multipartite in polarization-squeezed light];
Jeong et al nPhot(14)-a1309 [quantum and classical states];
news nat(14)feb [photons from distant quasars];
> s.a. entangled systems
[photon + atom, photon + spin waves, multiphoton].
@ Parametric down-conversion:
Hübel et al Nat(10)jul
+ news nat(10)jul [generation of photon triplets];
Walborn et al PRP(10) [rev, spatial correlations].
@ Light standstill:
Kocharovskaya et al qp/00;
Turukhin et al PRL(02)
+ pn(02)jan;
Zibrov et al PRL(02) [transport];
>–s.a. light.
@ Other effects and descriptions:
Lee et al PRP(03) [photon splitting];
de la Torre EJP(05)qp/04,
qp/04,
qp/05 [description, and electromagnetic field];
news at(13)sep [photons behaving like mutually attractive massive particles];
Miwa et al PRL(14)
+ news Phys(14)jul [squeezing and unsqueezing, two-way conversion between
particlelike single-photon states and wavelike superpositions of coherent states];
Just et al a1404
[detection of non-classical spacetime correlations];
Sokolovski a1607 [trajectories];
news nat(17)oct [photon pairing in materials];
news cosmos(18)feb [polariton-mediated entanglement];
> s.a. Goldstone Boson.
> Other effects:
see Cerenkov Effect; Compton Effect;
Cooper Pairs; force [measurement];
Photoelectric Effect;
quantum field theory effects in curved spacetime.
> Related topics:
see bose-einstein condensation; information;
Laser; matter [mirror photon];
optical technology; photons [detection,
wave function]; quantum optics; Solid Light;
uncertainty relations [violation of error-disturbance relation];
phenomenology of uncertainty relations [modified dispersion relations].
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