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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 20, 2017 at 12:33 | comment | added | Selene Routley | @user142244 .... That's the basic measurement problem. Your calculation of ratios is correct, BTW, for normal incidence on an interface between air and glass with $n=1.5$. | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 12:32 | comment | added | Selene Routley | @user142244 The path of the photon is not well defined: the quantum field in a one-photon number state propagates in a manner described by Maxwell's equations - very similar to classical electromagnetic fields (i.e. at the speed of light, with the same diffraction, focussing, etc effects, so that the field as the same "shape" and region of influence as a propagating classical EM field). The quantum EM field then interacts with the detector to drop to the ground (vacuum) state. What gives rise to the probabilistic effect? ..... | |
| Jan 20, 2017 at 10:10 | comment | added | Vitaly | Thanks for the help. Now to be clear: probability means that one photon reflects while other one will pass, and ration will be 4 to 96 in average. What in the Universe defines the path of the photon? If all photons are same, and material is the same, what chages from event to event? | |
| Jan 18, 2017 at 16:40 | comment | added | Vitaly | Thans to aal for the responce. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 7:11 | history | answered | Selene Routley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |