Wave–particle duality is the concept in quantum mechanics that fundamental entities of the universe, like photons and electrons, exhibit particle or wave...
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The wave–particle duality relation, also called the Englert–Greenberger–Yasin duality relation, or the Englert–Greenberger relation, relates the visibility...
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theory Wigner's classification Particle segregation Self-propelled particle List of particles Wave–particle duality "Particle". AMS Glossary. American Meteorological...
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Electromagnetic radiation (redirect from Electromagnetic wave)
speed of light in a vacuum and exhibit wave–particle duality, behaving both as waves and as discrete particles called photons. Electromagnetic radiation...
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Double-slit experiment (redirect from Dual slit experiment)
quantum mechanics and the concept of wave–particle duality. He believed it demonstrated that the Christiaan Huygens' wave theory of light was correct, and...
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Photon (redirect from Light particle)
elementary particles, photons are best explained by quantum mechanics and exhibit wave–particle duality, their behavior featuring properties of both waves and...
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like a stream of particles (called photons) as well as exhibiting wave-like properties. This led to the concept of wave–particle duality to reflect that...
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Matter waves are a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics, being half of wave–particle duality. At all scales where measurements have been practical...
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arguing that light has particle properties, his 1906 work on specific heats, his 1909 introduction of the concept of wave–particle duality, his 1916 work presenting...
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matter. Wave–particle duality is an example of the principle of complementarity in quantum physics. An elegant example of wave-particle duality is the...
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the particles are all moving in the same direction, similar to a light beam. Due to the wave–particle duality, all moving particles also have wave character...
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Albert Einstein (section Wave–particle duality)
point-like particles. This paper introduced the photon concept and inspired the notion of wave–particle duality in quantum mechanics. Einstein saw this wave–particle...
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wave-particle duality, and forms a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics. De Broglie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929, after the wave-like...
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postulates no physical particle or wave entities, only observed wave-particle duality). The pilot wave guides the motion of the point particles as described by...
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Broglie waves. They form a key aspect of wave–particle duality and experiments have since supported the idea. The wave associated with a particle of a given...
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analytic number theory Wave–particle duality Duality (mathematics) Duality (disambiguation) Dual (disambiguation) List of dualities This disambiguation page...
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Light transport theory (section Wave-Particle Duality)
incorporates both wave-based and particle-based descriptions of light. While wave-based models rely on the principles of Maxwell's equations, particle models use...
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Phonon (section Lattice waves)
phonons represent wave-particle duality for sound waves in the same way that photons represent wave-particle duality for light waves. Solids with more...
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Wave–particle duality Matter wave Faraday, M. (1831) "On a peculiar class of acoustical figures; and on certain forms assumed by a group of particles...
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century, as the wave theory of light amassed new experimental evidence. The modern understanding of light is the concept of wave-particle duality. In the early...
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Boson (redirect from Bose particle)
In particle physics, a boson (/ˈboʊzɒn/ /ˈboʊsɒn/) is a subatomic particle whose spin quantum number has an integer value (0, 1, 2, ...). Bosons form...
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building blocks of the universe are strings instead of point particles. Before the so-called "duality revolution" there were believed to be five distinct versions...
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equations in gravitation List of equations in nuclear and particle physics List of equations in wave theory List of photonics equations List of relativistic...
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complementarity encompasses both the uncertainty principle and wave-particle duality. Bohr considered one of the foundational truths of quantum mechanics...
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thesis concerning the wave–particle duality theory, which proposed the idea that all matter displays the wave–particle duality of photons. According to...
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A virtual particle is a theoretical transient particle that exhibits some of the characteristics of an ordinary particle, while having its existence limited...
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Quantum mechanics (redirect from Free particle (quantum physics))
Measurements of quantum systems show characteristics of both particles and waves (wave–particle duality), and there are limits to how accurately the value of...
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Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect (section Wave mechanics)
received by two detectors from a beam of particles. HBT effects can generally be attributed to the wave–particle duality of the beam, and the results of a given...
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Fermion (redirect from Matter particle)
In particle physics, a fermion is a subatomic particle that follows Fermi–Dirac statistics. Fermions have a half-integer spin (spin 1/2, spin 3/2...
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hypothesized microscopic particles in particle physics, condensed matter physics and cosmology. Elementary particles are particles with no measurable internal...
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