{
  "id": "0712.0347",
  "version": "v4",
  "published": "2007-12-03T17:12:06.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-04-08T07:45:17.000Z",
  "title": "Superluminal propagation of evanescent modes as a quantum effect",
  "authors": [
    "Zhi-Yong Wang",
    "Cai-Dong Xiong",
    "Bing He"
  ],
  "comment": "Also as a Reply to the Comment by H. G. Winful [Phys. Rev. A 76, 057803 (2007)], to be published in Annalen der Physik",
  "journal": "Ann. Phys. (Berlin) 17, No. 5, 319-325 (2008)",
  "doi": "10.1002/andp.200710288",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Contrary to mechanical waves, the two-slit interference experiment of single photons shows that the behavior of classical electromagnetic waves corresponds to the quantum mechanical one of single photons, which is also different from the quantum-field-theory behavior such as the creations and annihilations of photons, the vacuum fluctuations, etc. Owing to a purely quantum effect, quantum tunneling particles including tunneling photons (evanescent modes) can propagate over a spacelike interval without destroying causality. With this picture we conclude that the superluminality of evanescent modes is a quantum mechanical rather than a classical phenomenon.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v4",
      "updated": "2008-04-08T07:45:17.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "evanescent modes",
      "superluminal propagation",
      "single photons",
      "two-slit interference experiment",
      "classical electromagnetic waves corresponds"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "journal": "Annalen der Physik",
      "year": 2008,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 520,
      "number": 5,
      "pages": 319
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2008AnP...520..319W"
    }
  }
}