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Quantization of the electromagnetic field
L. V. Prokhorov Leningrad State University named after A. A. Zhdanova
Abstract:
The question of a canonical quantization of the electromagnetic field as a system with two primary constraints is analyzed. Attention is focused on the following aspects of the problem: 1) the conditions on physical states; 2) the “old” and “new” Gupta formalisms; 3) the interpretation of the operators $\hat\alpha_0$, $\hat\alpha_0^+$; 4) the vacuum in quantum electrodynamics. The starting point for the analysis is Dirac's quantization recipe for systems with constraints. It is shown that the Fermi formalism with a condition on the physical states is completely correct.
Citation:
L. V. Prokhorov, “Quantization of the electromagnetic field”, UFN, 154:2 (1988), 299–320; Phys. Usp., 31:2 (1988), 151–162
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