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A photon viewed from wigner phase space

CRC Press, (2017), 59-77
DOI: 10.1201/9781420044256
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Abstract

We present a brief history of the photon and summarize the canonical procedure to quantize the radiation field. Our answer to the question “what is a photon?” springs from the Wigner representation of quantum mechanics as applied to a single photon number state.

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Mack, H., & Schleich, W. P. (2017). A photon viewed from wigner phase space. In The Nature of Light: What is a Photon? (pp. 59–77). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420044256

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