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Quantization of Light Energy Directly from Classical Electromagnetic Theory in Vacuum
It is currently believed that light quantum or the quantization of light
energy is beyond classical physics and the picture of wave-particle duality,
which was criticized by Einstein but attracted a number of experimental
researches, is necessary for the description of light. We show in this paper,
however, that the quantization of light energy in vacuum, which is the same as
that in quantum electrodynamics, can be derived directly from the classical
electromagnetic theory through the consideration of statistics based on
classical physics. Therefore, the quantization of energy is an intrinsic
property of light as a classical electromagnetic wave and has no need of being
related to particles.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figur
Multiphoton controllable transport between remote resonators
We develop a novel method for multiphoton controllable transport between
remote resonators. Specifically, an auxiliary resonator is used to control the
coherent long-range coupling of two spatially separated resonators, mediated by
a coupled-resonator chain of arbitrary length. In this manner, an arbitrary
multiphoton quantum state can be either transmitted through or reflected off
the intermediate chain on demand, with very high fidelity. We find, on using a
time-independent perturbative treatment, that quantum information leakage of an
arbitrary Fock state is limited by two upper bounds, one for the transmitted
case and the other for the reflected case. In principle, the two upper bounds
can be made arbitrarily small, which is confirmed by numerical simulations.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
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