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Investigation on the superluminality of evanescent modes via quantum Lorentz transformation

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 Added by Zhi-Yong Wang
 Publication date 2008
  fields Physics
and research's language is English




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Applying the fact that guided photons inside a waveguide can be treated as massive particles, one can study the superluminality of evanescent modes via showing that a massive particle can propagate over a spacelike interval, which corresponds to quantum tunneling effects. For this purpose, we treat the particle as a quantum reference frame, while attach an inertia observer to a classical reference frame, and then quantize the formulae for the Lorentz transformation between the quantum and classical reference frames, from which we obtain the conclusion that, owing to the Heisenbergs uncertainty relation, the particle can propagate over a spacelike interval.



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