TY - JOUR
T1 - Off-shell quantum fields to connect dressed photons with cosmology
AU - Sakuma, Hirofumi
AU - Ojima, Izumi
AU - Ohtsu, Motoichi
AU - Ochiai, Hiroyuki
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This research was partially supported in the form of collaboration with the Institute of Mathematics for Industry, Kyushu University. We thank the anonymous reviewer for his questions and comments, which helped us to improve the quality of this article.
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PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - The anomalous nanoscale electromagnetic field arising from light-matter interactions in a nanometric space is called a dressed photon. While the generic technology realized by utilizing dressed photons has demolished the conventional wisdom of optics, for example, the unexpectedly high-power light emission from indirect-transition type semiconductors, dressed photons are still considered to be too elusive to justify because conventional optical theory has never explained the mechanism causing them. The situation seems to be quite similar to that of the dark energy/matter issue in cosmology. Regarding these riddles in different disciplines, we find a common important clue for their resolution in the form of the relevance of space-like momentum support, without which quantum fields cannot interact with each other according to a mathematical result of axiomatic quantum field theory. Here, we show that a dressed photon, as well as dark energy, can be explained in terms of newly identified space-like momenta of the electromagnetic field and dark matter can be explained as the off-shell energy of theWeyl tensor field.
AB - The anomalous nanoscale electromagnetic field arising from light-matter interactions in a nanometric space is called a dressed photon. While the generic technology realized by utilizing dressed photons has demolished the conventional wisdom of optics, for example, the unexpectedly high-power light emission from indirect-transition type semiconductors, dressed photons are still considered to be too elusive to justify because conventional optical theory has never explained the mechanism causing them. The situation seems to be quite similar to that of the dark energy/matter issue in cosmology. Regarding these riddles in different disciplines, we find a common important clue for their resolution in the form of the relevance of space-like momentum support, without which quantum fields cannot interact with each other according to a mathematical result of axiomatic quantum field theory. Here, we show that a dressed photon, as well as dark energy, can be explained in terms of newly identified space-like momenta of the electromagnetic field and dark matter can be explained as the off-shell energy of theWeyl tensor field.
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U2 - 10.3390/SYM12081244
DO - 10.3390/SYM12081244
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85089509700
SN - 2073-8994
VL - 12
JO - Symmetry
JF - Symmetry
IS - 8
M1 - 1244
ER -