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Does quantum mechanics depend solely on electromagnetic waves? [duplicate]
I am beginning to learn quantum mechanics. Since determining the position of an object involves probing by electromagnetic waves and since i have read a simple derivation of Heisenberg's uncertainty ...
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Is the de Broglie wavelength of a photon equal to the EM wavelength of the radiation?
Is the de Broglie (matter) wavelength $\lambda=\frac{h}{p}$ of a photon equal to the electromagnetic wavelength of the radiation?
I guess yes, but how come that photons have both a matter wave and an ...
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Where is the amplitude of electromagnetic waves in the equation of energy of e/m waves?
Does the amplitude of the photon oscillations always stay constant and if it is not - what are the physical differences between the photon with higher amplitude in comparison to the one with the less ...
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Analytical solution of two level system driving by a sinusoidal potential beyond rotating wave approximation
A quantum mechanical two-level system driving by a constant sinusoidal external potential is very useful in varies areas of physics. Although the wildly used rotating-wave approximation(RWA) is very ...
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Are photons deterministic?
I propose the following scenario:
At $t=0$, a photon is emitted from a star. At $t=n$, said photon is received and interpreted by some detector.
My question is whether or not it is accurate to say ...
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What are the various physical mechanisms for energy transfer to the photon during blackbody emission?
By conservation of energy, the solid is left in a lower energy state following emission of a photon. Clearly absorption and emission balance at thermal equilibrium, however, thermodynamic equilibrium ...
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Two photons transition
if an atom in its ground state is coupled to an electromagnetic field it can absorb a photon if the EM field contains one with the right frequency. These transitions depends on $⟨f|H_i|i⟩$ (from ...
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Can a photon get emitted without a receiver?
It is generally agreed upon that electromagnetic waves from an emitter does not have to connect to a receiver, but how can we be sure this is a fact? The problem is that we can never observe non ...
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Amplitude of an electromagnetic wave containing a single photon
Given a light pulse in vacuum containing a single photon with an energy $E=h\nu$, what is the peak value of the electric / magnetic field?
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How to calculate radiative transition rate of exciton in a quantum dot with specific dimension?
I am writing rate equations for a nanophotonic system including three quantum dots. I need to calculate that radiative transition rates of exciton in ground state in those quantum dots.
In the paper ...
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Finding the energy levels of an electron in a plane perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field
Suppose we have an electron, mass $m$, charge $-e$, moving in a plane perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field $\vec{B}=(0,0,B)$. Let $\vec{x}=(x_1,x_2,0)$ be its position and $P_i,X_i$ be the ...
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What happens with photon when it is slowed down substantially?
In a dispersive media light's velocity can change substantially. Imagine we can slow it down to near 0 what the wave would look like?
Frequency of light does not seem to change even at v=0 (at least ...
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Quantum Mechanics- Antenna emitting electromagnetic radiation
Radio signals are being transmitted in a frequency of $ 8.4 \times 10^9 s^{-1} $ and being received by an antenne that is capable of receiveing power of $ 4 \times 10^{-21} watt $ ($ 1 watt = 1 J ...
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What is the difference between Quantum teleportation and Radio waves?
Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active feed- forward
What is the difference between Quantum teleportation and radio waves?
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What IS reflection?
How does quantum electrodynamics actually explain HOW reflection occurs on a microscopic scale?
Note that Feynman's QED lecture series/book is not sufficient, as he only assumes that light DOES ...
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Bohr's model of an atom doesn't seem to have overcome the drawback of Rutherford's model
We, as high school students have been taught that-because Bohr's model of an atom assigns specific orbits for electrons-that it is better than Rutherford's model. But what Rutherford failed to explain ...
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Frequency and wavelength of photons
I try to better understand how electromagnetic radiation works. So I have some questions.
If an antenna emits at 100MHz (the charges on the antenna oscillate at 100MHz) what frequency will have the ...
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Rabi oscillation
Let's consider simple two-level system with frequency gap of $\omega_0$ between ground and excited state. Now, when we turn on external electromagnetic field with frequency $\omega < \omega_0$, ...
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Is the electron wave function defined during photon emission
I have heard the term quantum leap to describe the (instantaneous?) transition from a higher energy orbital to a lower energy orbital. Yet, I understand that this transition time has now been ...
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Light Rays that are Perfectly Parallel
I just heard this simple reasoning in a documentary film:
Light rays from distant stars are perfectly parallel.
This is pretty interesting thought. In nature, it is hard to find something really ...
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Can a photon be emitted with a wavelength > 299,792,458 meters, and would this violate c?
Just curious if the possibility exists (not necessarily spontaneously) for a photon with a wavelength greater than the distance component of c to be emitted, and would this inherently violate the ...
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Interaction of matter with EM fields
For the interaction between electromagnetic fields and matter,
when do we have to include quantization of the EM field and when we can ignore it?
when do we have to include quantization of atomic ...
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Light waves and Schrödinger probability waves
Ok, bearing in mind that I only have a brief understanding of quantum mechanics (no formal education, only from reading about concepts in books), so I could be way off here, I have a question ...
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Young's experiment or why the light can't be described as a particle [closed]
Who hasn't heard about the double-slit experiment? It figures in any book of quantum physics. But there is something no one can explain to me : I understand why the light cannot be described only as a ...
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Properties of the photon: Electric and Magnetic field components
Consider an electromagnetic wave of frequency $\nu$ interacting with a stationary charge placed at point $x$. My question concerns the consistency of two equally valid quantum-mechanical descriptions ...
