Re: EM field of photon

On Dec 23, 12:35 am, Thomas Smid <thomas.s...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 11 Dec, 02:57, il...@xxxxxx wrote:

Does a photon (free - plane wave or/and confined - a wave packet) has
an EM field.

Yes, it has. This is for instance proven by the experimental fact that
in the photoelectric effect the photoelectrons are primarily emitted
parallel to the electric polarization vector of the light, but not
parallel to its direction of propagation (as one would expect it from
a 'billiard ball' -type particle model) (seehttp://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v37/i10/p1233_1
).

As the only way for light to interact with matter is through its EM
field, one can therefore say that it IS indeed an EM field (although
this can of course be localized to a certain degree in the form of so
called 'wave packets').

Thomas



Photons are a part of the standard model as elementary particles.
Maybe there is some experiment that probes the cohesiveness of a
photon (probably some large one).

Metal rods can polarize microwaves and the demonstration is often
available at schools. Different dimensions of rods could turn the
polarizer into receiving antenna, no?

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