Re: Is photon a wave packet ?

[Arnulfo Castellanos Moreno <acastell@FISICA.USON.MX>]

Of course you can try classical pictures of photons, see for example
A. O. Barut, "E=h*nu", Phys. lett. A 143, (1990), p. 349 and
A. O. Barut and A. Grant, "Quantum particle-like configurations of the
electromagnetic fields",
Foundations of Physics Letters 3 (1990), p. 303.

They want to get a classical model of the photon by solving the wave
equation in
such way that it is satisfied by a wave packet represented with an integral
where the kernel is the
solution to a Helmholtz equation.

You can disagree about that points of view, but they exist.

Arnulfo Castellanos Moreno

----- Original Message -----
From: "John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: Is photon a wave packet ?
,
> Arnulfo Castellanos Moreno wrote:
> > Who can imagine a photon in 1 400 000 hertz and several
> > meters of wavelength?
>
> At 1.4 MHz, the wavelength is more than a few meters.
>
> Why was this example chosen?
>
> > I do not see a classical picture like that.
>
> I don't understand what point is being made here.
>
> The question was about photons, so the answer must not
> involve a classical picture.  Classically there is no
> such thing as photons.