This book discusses in detail the concept of light quanta (photons) and presents a historical survey of the ideas involved. It analyses critically the principles of complementarity and correspondence as well as the quantization procedure. The work of Wigner, Newton and Wightman on localized states is discussed. The author presents many new ideas and gives a new way of defining the position operator. He invites physicists to look in new directions and aims to convince the reader that light quanta are not compatible with our present concept of space in quantum physics. The book should be of interest to students as well as to researchers in modern physics and should revive the discussion of the foundations of modern physics.

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Book Title: Localizability and Space in Quantum Physics
Editors: Henri Bacry
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0019319
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-13665-2Published: 23 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45908-8Published: 23 November 2005
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 84
Topics: Quantum Physics, Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics

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