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- W2796203686 abstract "We identify momentum/helicity probability amplitudes for the photon and find their relativistic transformation properties. We also find their behaviour under space inversion and time reversal. The discussion begins with a review of the unitary, irreducible representations of the Poincare group for massless particles. The little group, the set of Lorentz transformations that leave the momentum unchanged, is distinctly different for massless particles compared to the little group of rest frame rotations for a massive particle. We give a physical interpretation of the little group for a massless particle. The explicit forms of the Wigner rotations for general rotations and boosts are given. In normalized superpositions of the basis vectors, we identify the momentum/helicity probability amplitudes, show their probability interpretation and find their transformation properties. We see that position eigenvectors for the photon are not possible, not because of their masslessness but because of their limited helicity spectrum. Instead, to have a measure of localization for the photon, we use the expectations of the electromagnetic field strength operators in a coherent state with a mean photon number of unity. In the construction of the polarization vectors appearing in the field strengths, we see the connection between gauge invariance and Lorentz covariance." @default.
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- W2796203686 title "Relativistic probability amplitudes II. The photon" @default.
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