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Lamb, W.E. and Scully, M.O. (1969) In Polarization, matière et rayonnement, volume jubilaire en l’honneur d’Alfred Kastler. French Physical Society, Press Universitaires de France, Paris.

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• TITLE: Photon Structure and Wave Function from the Vector Potential Quantization

  AUTHORS: Constantin Meis

  KEYWORDS: Photons, Photon Wave Function, Vector Potential Quantization, Photon Electric and Magnetic Fields, Photon Structure, Wave-Corpuscle Representation, Photon “Energy-Vector Potential” Equation

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Modern Physics, Vol.14 No.3, February 25, 2023

  ABSTRACT: A photon structure is advanced based on the experimental evidence and the vector potential quantization at a single photon level. It is shown that the photon is neither a point particle nor an infinite wave but behaves rather like a local “wave-corpuscle” extended over a wavelength, occupying a minimum quantization volume and guided by a non-local vector potential real wave function. The quantized vector potential oscillates over a wavelength with circular left or right polarization giving birth to orthogonal magnetic and electric fields whose amplitudes are proportional to the square of the frequency. The energy and momentum are carried by the local wave-corpuscle guided by the non-local vector potential wave function suitably normalized.