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View SchemaTheoretical evidence for the superluminality of evanescent modes
| Authors | Zhi-Yong Wang, Cai-Dong Xiong |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0612102 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0612102 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.042105 |
| Journal | Physical Review A 75, 042105 (2007) |
Abstract
Though both theoretical and experimental investigations have revealed the superluminal behavior of evanescent electromagnetic waves, there are many disputes about the physical meaning and validity of such superluminal phenomenon, which is due to the fact that the traditional investigations are based on the theory of tunneling time, and concerned with the problem of what the group velocity of evanescent waves means. In this paper, by studying the quantum probability amplitude for photons to propagate over a spacelike interval along an undersized waveguide, we present theoretical evidence for such superluminality.
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