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Physics Letters A 381 (2017) 1926–1935 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Physics Letters A /locate/pla Maxwell meets Reeh–Schlieder: The quantum mechanics of neutral bosons Margaret Hawton a,∗, Vincent Debierre b,∗ a Department of Physics, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, P7B 5E1, Canada b Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We find that biorthogonal quantum mechanics with a scalar product that counts both absorbed and Received 10 January 2017 emitted particles leads to covariant position operators with localized eigenvectors. In this manifestly Received in revised form 4 April 2017 covariant formulation the probability for a transition from a one-photon state to a position eigenvector is Accepted 5 April 2017 the first order Glauber correlation function, bridging the gap between photon counting and the sensitivity Available online 7 April 2017 Communicated by P.R. Holland of light detectors to electromagnetic energy density. The position eigenvalues are identified as the spatial parameters in the canonical quantum field operators and the position basis describes an array of localized Keywords: devices that instantaneously absorb and re-emit bosons. Neutral boson