Number theoretic approach to determining the mass of the single photon as a universal unit

• DOI: 10.1364/opticaopen.28680731
• Publication Date: 2025-03-28T05:25:46Z
• Authors: Majid Vaezzadeh; Ali Amerimehr

<p dir="ltr">With a new perspective to electromagnetism based on the fact that photon particles have mass, we give a novel hypothesis to explain the light dispersion. By applying a geometric number theoretic method together with data analysis, we calculate the mass of a single photon moving with speed <i>c</i> to be approximately 9.1×10^−47kg. Theoretically, it could serves a universal unit of mass, especially for subatomic particles, because it is the lightest mass might be imagined in the universe. This point of view has interesting applications in quantum information and quantum computation e.g., generating weak coherent quantum states and discovering the impact of wavelength on the concurrence of pure states and entanglement sudden death.</p>