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Focusing on the unresolved debate between Newton and Huygens from 300 years ago, The Nature of Light: What is a Photon? discusses the reality behind enigmatic photons. It explores the fundamental issues pertaining to light that still exist today. Gathering contributions from globally recognized specialists in electrodynamics and quantum optics, the book begins by clearly presenting the mainstream view of the nature of light and photons. It then provides a new and challenging scientific epistemology that explains how to overcome the prevailing paradoxes and confusions arising from the accepted definition of a photon as a monochromatic Fourier mode of the vacuum. The book concludes with an array of experiments that demonstrate the innovative thinking needed to examine the wave-particle duality of photons. Looking at photons from both mainstream and out-of-box viewpoints, this volume is sure to inspire the next generation of quantum optics scientists and engineers to go beyond the Copenhagen interpretation and formulate new conceptual ideas about light–matter interactions and substantiate them through inventive applications.
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Critical review of the mainstream photon model Light Reconsidered Arthur Zajonc What Is a Photon? Rodney Loudon What Is a Photon? David Finkelstein The Concept of the Photon—Revisited Ashok Muthukrishnan, Marlan O. Scully, and M. Suhail Zubairy A Photon Viewed from Wigner Phase Space Holger Mack and Wolfgang P. Schleich Epistemological origin of logical contradictions Inevitable Incompleteness of All Theories: An Epistemology to Continuously Refine Human Logics Toward Cosmic Logics Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri Exploring photons beyond mainstream views “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 A Conclusive Experiment on Wave-Particle Duality of Light? Giorgio Brida, Marco Genovese, Marco Gramegna, and Enrico Predazzi The Photon Wave Function Ashok Muthukrishnan, Marlan O. Scully, and M. Suhail 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 Propagating 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 Propagating in Cold Strontium Cloud David Wilkowski, Yannick Bidel, Thierry Chanelière, Robin Kaiser, Bruce Klappauf, and Christian Miniatura The Nature of Light: Description of Photon Diffraction Based upon Virtual Particle Exchange Michael J. Mobley 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 Redirection and Redistribution in Interference and Diffraction? Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri Do We Count Indivisible Photons or Discrete Quantum Events Experienced by Detectors? Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri and Negussie Tirfessa Direct Measurement of Light Waves E. Goulielmakis, M. Uiberacker, R. Kienberger, A. Baltuska, V. Yakovlev, A. Scrinzi, Th. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher, and F. Krausz Index
