Photonics, Volume 1: Fundamentals of Photonics and Physics

Davıd L. Andrews

Constantin Meis

A photon quantization volume is defined, an intrinsic physical geometrical property of a single photon state, showing that photons are not point particles and constitute a particular case in the standard particle model. Based on the quantized vector potential amplitude a photon wave function is established satisfying Schrödinger’s equation and normalized with respect to the quantization volume. The single photon electric and magnetic fields in vacuum are calculated independently on any external cavity parameter and they are proportional to the square of the frequency. The electromagnetic vacuum derives straightforward from the photon vector potential function and has both classical and quantum representations. The photon wave function is directly related to the electromagnetic vacuum states setting the fundamentals for understanding entanglement.

Constantin Meis

A photon quantization volume is defined, an intrinsic physical geometrical property of a single photon state, showing that photons are not point particles and constitute a particular case in the standard particle model. Based on the quantized vector potential amplitude a photon wave function is established satisfying Schrödinger’s equation and normalized with respect to the quantization volume. The single photon electric and magnetic fields in vacuum are calculated independently on any external cavity parameter and they are proportional to the square of the frequency. The electromagnetic vacuum derives straightforward from the photon vector potential function and has both classical and quantum representations. The photon wave function is directly related to the electromagnetic vacuum states setting the fundamentals for understanding entanglement.

E. Petrovskaya

Iker Ibarrola Echeverría

This volume introduces the canonical realization mechanism that connects correlational ontology and formal structure to effective physical description. A universal correlational flow is defined as a non-ontological ordering principle acting on correlational configuration space, without invoking time or dynamics. From this realization mechanism, an emergent structural action and fundamental emergent equations are derived. The volume develops the emergence of time, dynamics, space, geometry, quantum and classical regimes, and physical laws as regime-dependent effective descriptions. Known physical theories—quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, and relativity—are recovered as distinct realization regimes. The volume makes explicit the non-fundamental status of action principles, equations of motion, and spacetime geometry. This volume constitutes the physical core of the framework.

Hugh D. Young