Timeline for What are the quantum numbers of a photon? [closed]
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| Dec 2, 2019 at 15:06 | history | closed |
Buzz♦ Emilio Pisanty Cosmas Zachos Jon Custer BioPhysicist |
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 18:00 | vote | accept | ChemEng | ||
| Nov 22, 2019 at 7:28 | answer | added | anna v | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 4:15 | comment | added | user4552 | What you're describing for the electron is a particular complete set of commuting observables. This is not the only possible complete set. For example, you can also describe an electon in a basis consisting of momentum and spin eigenstates. In terms of linear algebra, this is like a choice of basis. You can pick any basis you like. Similarly, there is no complete set of commuting observables that has to be used to describe a photon. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 2:55 | comment | added | ChemEng | i believe the spin is related to the polarization of the light, but what i am wondering about is the other quantum numbers of a photon and how they can be used for spectroscopy | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 2:16 | comment | added | baponkar | Photon has spin s= 1. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 1:26 | history | edited | ChemEng | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:58 | comment | added | ChemEng | Ahh so the quantum numbers for MO are different than for an electron | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:49 | comment | added | G. Smith | Electrons don’t vibrate and rotate. Molecules do. But, if I remember correctly, there are additional quantum numbers describing molecular states of vibration and rotation. I’m not familiar with VSEPR, so I might be confused about what you’re asking. | |
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:20 | comment | added | ChemEng | what about vibrational energy levels? i thought the quantum numbers are the same in between vibrational and rotational energy levels | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:17 | comment | added | G. Smith | i was wondering why the electron was fully defined lacking radiation information Radiation is emitted or absorbed when an electron changes its atomic quantum numbers. When the electron is sitting in a state with the quantum numbers you mention, it is not interacting with any radiation. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:12 | history | edited | Emilio Pisanty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:11 | comment | added | ChemEng | yea i was wondering why the electron was fully defined lacking radiation information | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:11 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:11 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | Presumably by "vsepr" you mean valence shell electron pair repulsion theory? The acronym is not particularly well known on a broad-audience basis, and cannot be introduced without explaining what it is upon its first mention. | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:10 | history | edited | Emilio Pisanty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:04 | comment | added | G. Smith | Anyone familar with vsepr knows can get it on a physical level Get what on a physical level? | |
| Nov 22, 2019 at 0:03 | comment | added | AccidentalFourierTransform | The numbers $n,m,\ell,s$ are the quantum numbers for an electron in a Coulomb potential. In other situations, the numbers will be different. So, what is the potential for your photon? | |
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