The nature of light : what is a photon? /: what is a photon?. (©2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri, A.F. Kracklauer, Katherine Creath.
• Other Names: Roychoudhuri, Chandrasekhar; Kracklauer, Al F; Creath, Katherine
• Contents: Light reconsidered / Arthur Zajonc -- What is a photon? / Rodney Louden -- What is a photon? / David Finkelstein -- The concept of the photon -- revisited / Ashok Muthukrishnan, Marlon O. Scully, and M. Suhail Zubairy -- A photon viewed from Wigner phase space / Holger Mack and Wolfgang P. Schleich -- Inevitable incompleteness of all theories: an epistemology to continuously refine human logics towards cosmic logics / Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri -- "Single photons" have not been detected: the alternative "photon clump" model / Emilio Panarella -- What is a photon? / C. Rangacharyulu -- Oh photon, photon; whither art thou gone? / A.F. Kracklauer -- The photon wave function / A. Muthukrishnan, M.O. Scully, and M.S. Zubairy -- Photons are fluctuations of a random (zeropoint) radiation filling the whole space / Emilio Santos -- Violation of the principle of complementarity and its implications / Shahriar S. Afshar -- The Bohr model of the photon / Geoffrey Hunter, Marian Kowalski, and Camil Alexandrescu -- The Maxwell wave function of the photon / M.G. Raymer and Brian J. Smith -- Modeling light entangled in polarization and frequency: case study in quantum cryptography / John M. Myers -- Photon -- the minimum dose of electromagnetic radiation / Tuomo Suntola -- Propogating topological singularities: photons / R.M. Kiehn -- The photon: a virtual reality / David L. Andrews -- The photon and its measurability / Edward Henry Dowdye, Jr. -- Phase coherence in multiple scattering: weak and intense monochromatic light wave propogating in cold strontium cloud / David Wilkowski [and others] -- The nature of light: description of photon diffraction based upon virtual particle exchange / Michael J. Mobley -- What physics is encoded in Maxwell's equations? / B.P. Kosyakov -- From quantum to classical: watching a single photon become a wave / Marco Bellini, Alessandro Zavatta, and Silvia Viciani -- If superposed light beams do not redistribute their energy in the absence of detectors (material dipoles), can a single indivisible photon interfere? / Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri -- What processes are behind energy re-direction and re-distribution in interference and diffraction? / Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri -- Do we count indivisible photons or discreet quantum events experienced by detectors? / Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri and Negussie Tirfessa -- Direct measurement of light waves / E. Goulielmakis [and others].
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Copyright Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 429 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 539.7/217; Photons; Light; SCIENCE -- Physics -- Nuclear; SCIENCE -- Physics -- Atomic & Molecular; Light; Photons; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420044256; 1420044257
• Related ISBNs: 9781420044249; 1420044249
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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