Email this article What is a photon?
- Authors: Krokhin O.N.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Lebedev Physical Institute
- National Research Nuclear University
- Issue: Vol 80, No 5 (2016)
- Pages: 539-540
- Section: Proceedings of the XXII All-Russian Conference “Electromagnetic Fields and Materials” (Fundamental Physical Research)
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1062-8738/article/view/184379
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873816050105
- ID: 184379
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Abstract
Certain properties of photons viewed as quanta (particles of an electromagnetic field) are discussed. Specifically, the nature of localization (size) of photons along and across the direction of wave propagation is examined.
About the authors
O. N. Krokhin
Lebedev Physical Institute; National Research Nuclear University
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Email: krokhin@sci.lebedev.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119991; Moscow, 115409
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