Ciro Santilli
OurBigBook.comInitially light was though of as a wave because it experienced interference as shown by experiments such as:
But then, some key experiments also start suggesting that light is made up of discrete packets:and in the understanding of the 2020 Standard Model the photon is one of the elementary particles.
- Compton scattering, also suggests that photons carry momentum
- photoelectric effect
- single photon production and detection experiments
This duality is fully described mathematically by quantum electrodynamics, where the photon is modelled as a quantized excitation of the photon field.
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- Atomic clock
- BB84
- Bloch sphere
- Color confinement
- Compton scattering
- Dirac equation
- Double-slit experiment
- Gluon
- Higgs boson
- History of quantum mechanics
- Maxwell's equations
- Optics
- Particle creation and annihilation
- Photoelectric effect
- Photomultiplier tube
- Photon polarization
- Photonic quantum computer
- Photonics
- Planck-Einstein relation
- Poincaré sphere
- Polarization of light
- Quantum electrodynamics
- Quantum entanglement
- Quantum field theory
- Richard Feynman Quantum Electrodynamics Lecture at University of Auckland (1979)
- Single particle double slit experiment
- Single photon production and detection
- Spin
- Timeline of quantum mechanics