Photon localization revisited

TL;DR

This paper revisits photon localization by proposing a quantum field ontology framework that explains how photons can be effectively localized through interactions, addressing foundational questions in quantum theory.

Contribution

It introduces a new ontological approach linking quantum fields and particles, providing a theoretical basis for photon localization via media interactions.

Findings

Effective photon mass generation explained through media interactions

Quantum field ontology clarifies particle localization mechanisms

Framework addresses localizability issues in quantum field theory

Abstract

In the light of Newton-Wigner-Wightman theorem of localizability question, we have proposed before a typical generation mechanism of effective mass for photons to be localized in the form of polaritons owing to photon-media interactions. In this paper, the general essence of this example model is extracted in such a form as Quantum Field Ontology associated with Eventualization Principle, which enables us to explain the mutual relations back and forth, between quantum fields and various forms of particles in the localized form of the former.