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Photon as the carrier of the electromagnetic force
My physics background goes as "far" as reading popsci books on QM, Particle Physics, and Cosmology so pardon my ignorance in the below questions.
I've read that the photon is the particle (quanta in ...
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What exists in the Space between atoms
Apologies to all if this has been asked before, I searched but was unable to find one similar.
This is a question that has been bugging me for a while that i haven't really been able to find a ...
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Causality in a gedanken experiment on the hydrogen atom
Consider a gedanken(=thought) experiment where I am tracking the motion of the electron in a hydrogen atom with a time resolution of (say) $\Delta t = 10^{-20}$ seconds. Further assume (for ...
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How many photons can an electron absorb and why?
How many photons can an electron absorb and why?
Can all fundamental particles that can absorb photons absorb the same amount of photons and why?
If we increase the velocity of a fundamental ...
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photon and Z boson interference?
I'm not certain that this question will make sense, but here goes...
In most monte carlo generators, when Z events are produced, there is a lower mass cutoff on the Z pole. I've been told that this ...
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What's the relation between virtual photons and electromagnetic potentials?
Given that:
1) virtual photons mediate the electric and magnetic force fields
2) the magnetic field is the curl of the magnetic vector potential
3) the electric field is the negative gradient of ...
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The energy carried from one winding of a transformer to another, in quantum terms
I have read in wikipedia this statement
"The energy carried from one winding of a transformer to another, in quantum terms is carried by virtual photons, not real photons" (wikipedia src: virtual ...
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Gravitational redshift of virtual photons
There is well known gravitational redshift of real photons. What about gravitational redshift of virtual photons of charged neutron star? Is electrostatic force become weaker while mass of ...
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What is the density of virtual photons around a unit charge?
It seems that virtual photons also exist in vacuum. So the precise question is:
What is the additional virtual photon density due to the electric field of a unit charge?
Or: How many virtual photons ...
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Are virtual photons affected by effective gravity in non-linear quantum electrodynamics?
Quantum electrodynamics based upon Euler-Heisenberg or Born-Infeld Lagrangians predict photons to move according to an effective metric, which is dependent on the background electromagnetic field in a ...
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Virtual photon description of B and E fields
I continue to find it amazing that something as “bulky” and macroscopic as a static magnetic or electric field is actually a manifestation of virtual photons.
So putting on your QFT spectacles, look ...
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Virtual photon counting
How to calculate number of exchanged virtual pohotons per unit of time between two electromagnetically interacting objects?
