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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 30: Poster II

Q 30.27: Poster

Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 16:30–19:00, VMP 9 Poster

Quantisation of the electromagnetic field based on the Wheeler wave functional — •Daniela Denot, Lev Plimak, and Wolfgang P. Schleich — Institute of Quantum Physics, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

We develop an approach to the quantisation of the electromagnetic field based on the concept of Wheeler’s wave functional [1].

Wheeler himself introduced a wave functional for the vacuum state. A single-photon state was considered by Bialynicki-Birula [2].

Building on the work by Bialynicki-Birula we construct a full-fledged quantisation approach based on the concept of wave functionals, by introducing the coherent-state wave functionals and phase-space shift. We also consider quantum dynamics in the Wheeler representation.
C. W. Misner, K. S. Thorne, and J. A. Wheeler, Gravitation,
W. H. Freeman and Company, New York (1973).
I. Bialynicki-Birula, Optics Communications, 179, 5 (2000).