Timeline for Is a single photon also a Maxwellian wave?
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| Jul 3, 2017 at 9:32 | comment | added | Ooker | @Paul what is brilion? Did you mean billion? | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 23:40 | comment | added | user46925 | Maxwellian waves and photons are from different theories. | |
| Apr 17, 2015 at 4:52 | comment | added | Virgo | See my answer to this question:physics.stackexchange.com/questions/66977/… | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 11:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackPhysics/status/585039451098865664 | ||
| Apr 6, 2015 at 9:43 | answer | added | Selene Routley | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 7:31 | comment | added | Paul | Classical EM wave consists of brilions of photons. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 6:52 | comment | added | DanielSank | @AlfredCentauri I disagree. A "photon" is a unit of excitation of an electromagnetic mode. If the electromagnetic field "has one photon in it" then I'm implicitly saying that there's some superposition of states (i.e. modes) each with one unit of excitation. This is still a wave, because each mode has a particular E and B field configuration. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 4:44 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 2:52 | comment | added | Alfred Centauri | This is a good question (so upvote) and the short answer is no, the photon is not a Maxwellian wave but explaining this is non-trivial. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 2:46 | answer | added | phandaman | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 2:40 | history | edited | DLV |
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| Apr 6, 2015 at 1:48 | answer | added | Ernie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 0:27 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 0 | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 0:20 | history | asked | DLV | CC BY-SA 3.0 |