Dirac equation for photons in a fibre: Origin of polarisation
Spin is a fundamental degree of freedom, which was discovered by Dirac for an electron in his relativistic quantum mechanics, known as the Dirac equation. The origin of spin for a photon is unclear because Maxwell's equations in a vacuum are Lorentz invariant without introducing the concept of...
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Elsevier
2024-04-01
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844024043986 |