Relativistic operator description of photon polarization

Pramana - Journal of Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 347-359

  Arvind, ^a   Mukunda, N ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Massless particles; Photon polarization; Poincar group representations

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY; RELATIVITY; TOPOLOGY;

SPIN ORIENTATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0030287362     PISSN: 03044289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02847821     Document Type: Article

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13. These have been devloped in refs. [2] and [8], though the notation are slightly different