The paraxial approximation in quantum optics I: Henochromatic modes of a scalar field

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05477v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:20:38 GMT
• Title: The paraxial approximation in quantum optics I: Henochromatic modes of a scalar field
• Authors: Christopher Beetle and M. Fernanda Jongewaard de Boer
• Abstract summary: This paper examines how best to associate quantum states of a single particle to different modes of a narrowly collimated beam of classical radiation. The mapping of beam modes to the henochromatic'' quantum states previously introduced by Sudarshan, Simon and Mukunda is unique within a large class of similar mappings in that it is unitary in a mathematically precise sense.
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• Abstract: This paper examines how best to associate quantum states of a single particle to different modes of a narrowly collimated beam of classical radiation modeled in the paraxial approximation. Our analysis stresses the importance of the relationship between two inner products naturally arising in the problem. These are the inner product used to expand a general beam as a superposition of orthogonal modes in the paraxial approximation, on the one hand, and the canonical inner product on which the statistical interpretation of quantum (field) theory is founded, on the other. While several candidates for the sort of association between beam modes and single-particle quantum states have been proposed in the literature, here we argue that one of them is uniquely well suited to the task. Specifically, the mapping of beam modes to the ``henochromatic'' quantum states previously introduced by Sudarshan, Simon and Mukunda is unique within a large class of similar mappings in that it is unitary in a mathematically precise sense.

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