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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 73, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2679-0
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We describe the electromagnetic field by the massless limit of a massive vector field in the presence of a Coulomb gauge fixing term. The gauge fixing term ensures that, in the massless limit, the longitudinal mode is removed from the spectrum and only the two transverse modes survive. The system, coupled to a classical conserved current, is quantized in the canonical formalism. The classical field configurations due to time-independent electric charges and currents are represented by coherent states of longitudinal and transverse photons, respectively. The occupation number in these states is finite. In particular, the number of longitudinal photons bound by an electric charge q is given by N=q (2)/(16 pi h).
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