Photon detection operator and complementarity between electric detector and magnetic detector
Tanimura, Shogo
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It had been a long standing problem that there is no consistent definition of photon position operator nor photon number density in the context of quantum theory. In this paper we derive the photon detection operator, which defines location of photon absorption, by applying the theory of indirect measurement to quantum electrodynamics. It is shown that the photon detection probability depends on electric properties of a photon-absorbing atom, in particular, on both electric and magnetic dipole moments of the atom. An experiment is proposed, in which the complementarity of wave-particle nature of light will be tested. It is also discussed that the complementarity is related to the non-commutativity of the electric and the magnetic fields.
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