Photon localization: a comparative study
Summary
arXiv:2608.04134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We compare different measures for photon localization in terms of two-dimensional Gaussian wave packets. We find that all measures start to coalesce if the wave packet has evolved for times which are larger than a few times the inverse momentum-space width of the package. However, the Landau-Peierls wave function yields the largest positive offset -ct>0 while the scalar Fourier transform of the wave packet yields the smallest offset and converges towards -ct=0 fastest.
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