Quantization in Classical Electrodynamics

FRED HOYLE, Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

P.W.Morgan

The ideas behind the nonlocal classical statistical field theory model for the quantized Klein-Gordon field introduced in Morgan(2001, quant-ph/0106141) are extended to accommodate quantum electrodynamics. The anticommutation rules for the quantized Dirac spinor field are given a classical interpretation as a relativistically covariant modification of the minimal coupling interaction between the classical electromagnetic field and a classical Dirac spinor field.

Monique Combescot, Shiue-Yuan Shiau

Abstract In the chapter « Quantum electrodynamics », both the particles and the electromagnetic field are quantized. An elementary quantization procedure is first proposed in which the classical field normal modes are naïvely replaced by photon operators. The full quantization procedure is then presented that makes use of the Lagrangian formalism and the resulting Hamilton equations. This chapter ends with a discussion on photon number states and coherent Glauber states.

Anna Kómár, K. S. Hendzel

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