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20202026
most citedApproaching single-photon pulses

10 citations · 21 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

quant-ph2026

Photon localization: Local measurements, localized states, and causality

Jan Gulla, Johannes Skaar

We review what it means for a relativistic particle to be localized and argue that the most useful approach is through local measurement. This perspective ties localization directl…

quant-ph2026

Strictly Localized Mixed States

Sigurd Sørlie Rustad, Jan Gulla, Johannes Skaar

We study strictly localized mixed states in quantum field theory: states that are indistinguishable from vacuum outside some spacetime region. Such states are generated from the va…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

A truncated photon

Isak Cecil Onsager Rukan, Jan Gulla, Johannes Skaar

An elementary particle such as a photon cannot be cut in two pieces. Still it must be possible to truncate a photon with an optical shutter. The result is neither another photon no…

quant-ph2021★ 2 cited

Tunneling times of single photons

Jan Gulla, Johannes Skaar

Although the group delay of classical pulses through a barrier may suggest superluminality, the information transfer is limited by the precursor which propagates at the vacuum ligh…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Strictly localized three-dimensional states close to single photons

Kai Ryen, Jan Gulla, Johannes Skaar

A class of strictly localized states which can be made arbitrarily close to single photons is constructed, and expressions for central properties are provided. It is demonstrated t…

quant-ph2021★ 4 cited

Limits for realizing single photons

Jan Gulla, Kai Ryen, Johannes Skaar

Exact single photons cannot be generated on demand due to their infinite tails. To quantify how close realizable optical states can be to some target single photon in one dimension…

quant-ph2020★ 10 cited

Approaching single-photon pulses

Jan Gulla, Johannes Skaar

Single-photon pulses cannot be generated on demand, due to incompatible requirements of positive frequencies and positive times. Resulting states therefore contain small probabilit…