The authors construct locally-acting mirror Hamiltonians using position-space field operators that require both positive and negative frequency photons.
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The classical free-space solutions of Maxwell's equations for light propagation in one dimension include wave packets of any shape that travel at the speed of light. This includes highly-localised wave packets that remain localised at all times. Motivated by this observation, this paper builds on recent work by Southall et al. [J. Mod. Opt. 68, 647 (2021)] and shows that a local description of the quantised electromagnetic field, which supports such solutions and which must overcome several no-go theorems, is indeed possible. Starting from the assumption that the basic building blocks of photonic wave packets are so-called bosons localised in position (blips), we identify the relevant Schr\"odinger equation and construct Lorentz-covariant electric and magnetic field observables. In addition we show that our approach simplifies to the standard description of quantum electrodynamics when restricted to a subspace of states.
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Locally-acting mirror Hamiltonians
The authors construct locally-acting mirror Hamiltonians using position-space field operators that require both positive and negative frequency photons.