On the quantal nature of the Coulomb field

• Autorzy: Andrzej Staruszkiewicz
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

It is shown that the total electric charge, as determined from the Gauss law, is a quantum object. The argument is based on elementary considerations concerning the number of photons, which should be large in a classical situation.

• Wydawca: Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences
• Czasopismo: Banach Center Publications
• Rocznik: 1997
• Tom: 41
• Numer: 2
• Strony: 257-262

Daty

wydano

1997

Twórcy

autor

Andrzej Staruszkiewicz

• Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University, Reymonta 4, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

Bibliografia

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• [2] René Descartes, Regulae Ad Directionem Ingenii, I quote from the Polish translation, published by PWN, Warsaw 1958, page 9.
• [3] W.B. Berestetsky, E.M. Lifshitz, and L.P. Pitaevsky, Relativistic Quantum Theory, Moscow 1968, in Russian.
• [4] M. Alexander and P.G. Bergmann, Foundations of Physics 14, 925 (1984).
• [5] A. Staruszkiewicz, an essay in honour of Yakir Aharonov, published in Quantum Coherence and Reality, ed. by J.S. Anandan and J.L. Safko, World Scientific, Singapore 1994, page 90.
• [6] A. Staruszkiewicz, Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 190, 354 (1989).