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Mater Sci Nanotechnol 2017 | Volume 1 Issue 2
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Nanomaterials and Nanochemistry
November 29-30, 2017 | Atlanta, USA
International Conference on
As the outcomes of our intensive research efforts,
multitudes of remarkable accomplishments have been
made in the field of nanophotonics. We can say, however, that
almost all of such researches have a feature of application in
the sense that we no longer inquire a fundamental question
of what is light during the course of such researches, but we
just use or apply to our problem conventional knowledge on
electromagnetism (either classical or quantum mechanical)
which seems to be firmly established in such a degree that
there is no room to improve it. But, is it actually true that
the conventional electromagnetic (EM) theory is versatile in
doing application researches? Themain issuewe address here
is on the above question from the viewpoint of our ongoing
cutting-edge research of off-shell dressed photon (DP) to
be explained in my talk. My answer to this basic question is
negative, because we now know that experimentally-verified
DP serves as a concrete example of an EM phenomenon
which defies the interpretation based on the conventional
theory. I think that the significance of issue on DP is two-
fold: the one is on application studies in which several
innovative accomplishments, including the latest high-power
silicon laser, have become available now, which is expected
to open up an important new realm of nanophotonics, and
the other is on its conceptual impact upon the applicability
range of off-shell phenomena. So far, we think that off-shell
phenomena free from Einstein causality become important
only in a sub-atomic quantum world. But a closer inspection
derived from a general result of mathematical formulation
of quantum field shows that off-shell phenomena are
ubiquitous for quantum field interactions at large and they
are not restricted to sub-atomic scales.
Speaker Biography
Mr. Hirofumi Sakuma is currently working at the Center for Better Living (CBL), Japan.
His research interests are Nanophotonics, conventional theory, quantum world etc.
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Hirofumi Sakuma
The Center for Better Living, Japan
Novel challenge to understand off-shell dressed photons: An initiative taken at
newly established institute RODREP