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Question: <p>I have been trying to understand "wave-particle duality" and other cases related to it. I am currently a college level student. I have few question which I am not getting answers clearly. </p>
<p>In double slit experiment, A particle behave like a wave, then how is "wave-particle duality" explained? I mea... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/53959/wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>Can someone please explain wave particle duality for large bodies? Why don't large bodies exhibit wave like nature for example if I am walking with some momentum, the wavelength associated with me is <span class="math-container">$h/p$</span> what does this mean?</p>
Answer: <p>de Broglie wave length is de... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/500353/wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I am sort of confused about this. Wave particle duality says that sub atomic particles are waves. There is something more though. What is the actual meaning of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality" rel="nofollow">wave particle duality</a>?</p>
Answer: <p><a href="https://ph... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/101049/what-is-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I had an interesting conversation with CuriousOne the other day about the question <a href="https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/268250/experiment-that-demonstrates-the-wave-particle-duality-of-electrons/268252#268252">Experiment that demonstrates the wave-particle duality of electrons</a>. I though... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/268360/matters-wave-particle-duality-true |
Question: <p>I know that photons and electrons and such are said to have a wave particle duality, but what does that mean for a photon? When light strikes an object, are many photons emitted, enough to draw infinitely many rays, is only one emitted, or something in between?</p>
<p>In particular, I'm having trouble wit... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/69954/photons-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>Regards the issue of wave particle duality and the double slit experiment. </p>
<p>If the experiment was run with the ’screen’ and detector as a 'box', with electrons being sent into the box from an external source and this box was placed on a set of scales and measurements taken before and after the expe... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/205852/wave-particle-duality-weight |
Question: <p>By fundamental definition of a entangled system we can say that if we know the quantum state of one subsystem then we can describe the state of another subsystem.
A particle possess wave-particle duality. If one experiment verify the wave nature of particle then we can not see its particle behaviour in sam... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/109853/wave-particle-duality-and-entanglement |
Question: <p>Wave-particle duality states that a particle has both wave properties and particle properties when one is <em>not</em> observing it.</p>
<p>1) What is an observer? Need it be anything living or can other particles also act as observers?</p>
<p>2) When doing the electron double slit experiment--shooting j... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/22685/questions-on-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>We know that light and electrons both show wave-particle duality. Or in other words we can say that they can be both seen as a wave and a particle. Can a similar theory be applicable for sound? Can sound also be explained as a particle as well as a wave?</p>
Answer: <p>The notion you should look up and le... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/202058/does-sound-show-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I have been thinking a lot about the double slit experiment and am wondering whether any theorist has ever considered the following interpretation for wave-particle duality:</p>
<p>Could the reason we sometimes detect particles actually be because we are detecting the crest of the wave? This interpretati... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/471025/interpreting-wave-particle-duality-due-to-wave-crests |
Question: <p>Does string theory explain the weird things that happens at the quantum level, especially wave-particle duality? </p>
Answer: <p>I do not think so. As a matter of fact strings must be "quantized" to produce "quantum" physics. So the quantum structure (including all apparently weird things) is assumed <em>... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/89383/does-string-theory-explain-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I often hear about the wave-particle duality, and how particles exhibit properties of both particles and waves. However, I wonder, is this actually a duality? At the most fundamental level, we 'know' that everything is made up out of particles, whether those are photons, electrons, or maybe even strings. T... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/46237/is-the-wave-particle-duality-a-real-duality |
Question: <p>For electromagnetic waves there exists a wave/particle duality: light sometimes behaves as a wave, and other times as a particle (photons).</p>
<p>Does such a duality exist for gravitational waves? In other words would we expect gravitational waves to sometimes behave has particles (gravitons)?</p>
Answe... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/235587/does-wave-particle-duality-exist-for-gravitational-waves |
Question: <p>What would be the particle associated with the material waves (like water waves, sound waves) according to <strong>Wave particle duality</strong> and <strong>de Broglie hypothesis</strong>? Are those the medium particles (or molecules) themselves?
Edit:
for eg, photon is associated with electromagnetic wa... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/676039/particle-associated-with-material-waves-according-to-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>It just occurred to me that the graviton is still a <em>hypothetical</em> quantum of gravity yet gravitational waves are proven and measurable. Should we not expect that gravity follows the same wave/particle duality of other occurring quanta (radiation) given its ability to behave like a wave?</p>
<p>What... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/599225/gravity-wave-particle-duality-of-the-graviton |
Question: <p>I don't know if electrons work as particles or waves or maybe both in photoelectric effect.</p>
<p>How is Photoelectric Effect actually described by Wave-Particle Duality?</p>
Answer: <p>Depending on the experiment electrons can behave either like a wave or a particle. </p>
<p>In the photoelectric effe... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/246250/how-does-wave-particle-duality-describe-photoelectric-effect |
Question: <p>Are sound waves “pure waves”? Or does sound also have a particle nature according to wave-particle duality?</p>
Answer: <blockquote>
<p>Are sound waves “pure waves”? Or sound also has a particle nature according to wave-particle duality?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Waves are described by solutions of wave equ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/389279/does-anything-exist-only-as-pure-wave-without-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>As far as I understand, in the early days of quantum theory there was quite a lot of debate over how to interpret what it meant for a quantum mechanical object to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties. </p>
<p>Is it correct to say that the modern interpretation (as in the one arrived at at t... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/257060/modern-interpretation-of-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I'm confused by the famous wave-particle duality mystery:</p>
<p>When a particle is left unobserved, it acts like a wave and can explore all classically available particle trajectories simultaneously. By looking at it, you force it to decide on a single trajectory, like going through the left or right sli... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/59448/are-there-theories-that-explain-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>Edit note: As I've got a downvote and some negative comments, I will try to make myself very clear.</p>
<p>Electrons are thought to be particles, classically. Electric current is defined to be the movement of electrons.
But, electrons have wave-particle duality.</p>
<p>Q.No:1: How is electric current(def... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/285388/explanation-of-electric-current-and-wave-particle-duality-of-electron |
Question: <p>According to Higgs Mechanism a particle acquires mass when it couples to the higgs field. Now consider Wave-Particle Duality. Suppose I am doing a Young's Double Slit Experiment using electrons. When they pass through the slits they behave like waves and quantum waves have no mass, there is just momentum g... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/415791/higgs-mechanism-and-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>This could sound an elementary question, but the more I think about it, more convinced I am that there could be a different perspective.</p>
<p>I seriously doubt about what is called "wave particle duality" as a "fact". Let me explain with detail what I want to say.</p>
<p>For terms of ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/843444/reviewing-the-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>In a vacuum, if electrons are accelerated by a certain voltage, giving the electrons a specific de Broglie wavelength and were incident on a piece of metal, providing the wavelength was roughly the diameter/distance between two of the atoms in the metal, would the electrons interact with the metal as a wav... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/248132/photoelectric-effect-and-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>Apologies if this has been asked before (I did check and I believe it wasn't). I have a question about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality" rel="nofollow">particle/wave duality</a> of photons (or other particles). Depending on what and how we measure the photon turns out... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/43592/wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>Please help me in solving a question stuck in my head about symmetry and conservation laws?
Can wave-particle duality be considered an atomic-particle symmetry? And if so, what is the conservation law behind this symmetry?</p>
Answer: <p>Wave-particle duality is not a symmetry, although based on other pla... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/673102/is-a-conservation-symmetry-law-behind-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>First off I have found several different definitions of <em>duality</em> and <em>complementarity</em>, so if anyone has a clear idea on what it meant with these terms please do share.</p>
<p>Now, what I mean is the following: in the wave-particle picture for light and for massive particles, can <strong>al... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/152760/wave-particle-duality-or-complementarity |
Question: <p>This MIT professor teaches wave-particle duality of matter <a href="https://youtu.be/Qg7pQ_CYaIQ?t=1452" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here on YouTube</a>. The formula is:</p>
<pre><code>wavelength = h/mv
</code></pre>
<p>Her conclusion is that the wavelength is too small to be detected. Well, I can always m... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/511710/wavelength-of-a-baseball-in-the-context-of-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>There is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wave–particle duality</a>. According to this theory, light is a wave and a particle at once.</p>
<p>What about magnetic field? Can it be so, that it is also a wave and particle, but this particle has n... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/93620/does-the-magnetic-field-lie-in-the-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>If you're a scientist that subscribes to the many worlds theorem, does that mean you do not accept wave particle duality? Seeing as MW postulates that the wave or particle form has always existed that way in your world (If I understood it correctly)</p>
Answer: <p>No, there is no logical dependence on the... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/478985/does-wave-particle-duality-rely-on-accepting-the-copenhagen-interpretation |
Question: <p>Does the wave/particle duality exist across the entire electromagnetic spectrum?</p>
<p>If theory says so, then to what extent have physicists confirmed by experimental means?</p>
Answer: <p>Wave/particle duality is present across all particles, an equation to show this is:
$$
p=h/\lambda
$$
where p is t... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/169547/does-the-wave-particle-duality-exist-across-the-entire-electromagnetic-spectrum |
Question: <p>If we take the double slit experiment as a way of demonstrating the wave-particle duality, which types of particles would show an interference pattern?</p>
<p>For example, I know that electrons show such a pattern. But do protons, too? What about atoms? Where is the boundary between "wavey particles" and ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/103074/which-types-of-particles-are-affected-by-the-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>There are a number of questions on this site that explain the many wave-like behaviors of photons by making reference to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality" rel="noreferrer">wave-particle duality</a>. </p>
<p>However, I have just finished reading Feynman's book <em>QED</em... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/43992/is-wave-particle-duality-considered-a-valid-interpretation-of-the-behavior-of-ph |
Question: <p>First I apologize if my question is trivial and for my poor English.
I was wondering why my teacher states that "electron's wave-particle duality is verified if we observe diffraction of the electron flux when fired at a crystal"
I mean, if the diffraction was considered to be only shown by waves, then why... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/15854/why-does-davisson-germer-experiment-confirm-electrons-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I am wondering about the wave/particle duality of an alpha particle in vacuum. Suppose a U-238 nucleus emits an alpha-particle in vacuum. Is the alpha particle initially a spherical wave propagating in all directions? Does the wave function of the alpha particle collapse only later, when it interacts with... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/639762/wave-particle-duality-of-an-alpha-particle-that-is-emitted-by-alpha-decay |
Question: <p>I have this very bad habit of going to the scratch, discarding all the developments of a theory and worldly knowledge, and ask some fundamental (mostly stupid and naive, as some may say) questions as to why why we needed so and so assumption, why we had to consider this way, could we assume $X$ instead of ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/91147/why-complex-functions-for-explaining-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>Is there a difference between { a particle that acts as a wave} & { a wave that acts as a particle} ??
Ex: when u consider electrons, they have a specific mass and an inconstant velocity, but when we consider photons, they neither have a specific mass nor a changing velocity.</p>
Answer: <p>Wave-parti... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/751663/wave-particle-duality-or-particle-wave-duality |
Question: <p>De Broglie's equation regarding the wave particle duality of matter <span class="math-container">$\lambda =\frac{h}{mv}$</span> depends on velocity. <strong>Now, velocity is relative and depends on the frame of reference of the observer. But does this mean that even the wavelength is relative and will be d... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/716128/is-wavelenth-of-a-particle-relative-according-to-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>What does it mean for an electron to behave as a wave? I can visualize electrons or other subatomic things as particles. But what do we mean when say it's all a wave. What is waving actually? Waves are just a way by which energy can get transferred right with the oscillation of particles. But in this case ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/830257/wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p><strong>Re: The Double Slit Experiment and wave-particle duality.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Q1.1: Is this interpretation correct:</strong> When just one single particle (and no more) is sent through the two slits but is not measured, it shows interference as if a wave of particles, equal to every possible p... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/396787/questions-about-the-double-slit-experiment-and-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>It's heard quite often that fundamental particles (photons, quarks, etc) act as both particles and waves. </p>
<p>Now, I'm looking at it from a Quantum Field perspective. Is this localized energy <em>ripple</em> what the wave is? And is the fact that it is <em>localized</em> make it a particle?</p>
<p><a... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/343237/how-does-the-wave-particle-duality-fit-with-quantum-field-theory |
Question: <p>I'm not exactly sure how to phrase this question; I've been reading about wave -particle duality, its history and how it works. But it's really bothering me, whenever I watch YouTube videos about it or read about it, physicists seems to be careful to say that a wave such as light can <strong>BEHAVE</strong... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/172510/what-is-the-mechanism-behind-the-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>Based on the Pauli exclusion principle , no two particles can have the same quantum state. However, in the double slit experiment with electrons (in which we observe wave-particle duality), at some points the wave functions add up to each other. In those specific spatial spots, two electrons have exactly ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/273646/how-does-the-pauli-exclusion-principle-apply-to-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I have the following question about wave-particle duality:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Are particles really just waves with short wavelengths?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>If this is correct, would it then be accurate to say:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"<em>everything in the universe is a wave, but when a wavelength is shor... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/666557/does-wave-particle-duality-mean-particles-are-just-waves-with-short-wavelength |
Question: <p>An electron, travelling at high speed relative to an observer, does not radiate unless it undergoes some form of acceleration. Yet we can observe wave like properties under certain measurement conditions. If we accept that the electron has a magnetic moment, then there is a high probability that the elect... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/645939/what-is-the-role-of-the-magnetic-moment-on-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I have studied about the dual nature of light and all the experiments that proved light was a wave and sometimes a particle, and I am comfortable with the concept that it can be both. However, I have a few questions I am confused about.</p>
<p>1) If I have two different colours of light, I know that they ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/217646/light-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I am doing an essay in school to consider how much trust is needed to accept knowledge within the natural sciences. For one of my points I decided to look into W-P duality. I know the photoelectric effect shows that light is made up of photons, diffraction patterns suggest EM wave, and the Davisson-Germer ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/609407/trust-in-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/wycgI.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/HBOeX.png" title="source: imgur.com" /></a>
According to the wave particle duality, one can say that an electron is both a wave and a particle. If we confine it in a box, it can only form standing waves at p... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/151592/wave-particle-duality-in-the-confinement-of-an-electron-in-a-box |
Question: <p>When talking about the wave-particle duality, teachers and books say that when you send a single photon through a slit, it makes a wave pattern. But if you send that particle through the slit and "you observe it directly", then it appears as a single point (a particle).</p>
<p>What is meant by "observe"? ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/129522/what-exactly-is-meant-by-observed-when-talking-about-the-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>Is the probabilistic behaviour of quantum mechanics theory a direct consequence of the particle-wave duality ? Or is probabilistic behaviour an additive, <em>independent</em> feature (with respect to particle-wave duality) , of quantum mechanics.</p>
<p>To reformulate in another way : if we assume that a p... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/630001/is-the-probabilistic-behaviour-of-quantum-mechanics-something-new-not-directl |
Question: <p>CERN is looking for dark photons, and they are seeking to look for interactions with the Higgs boson with the dark photon.<a href="https://home.cern/news/news/physics/cms-hunts-dark-photons-coming-higgs-boson" rel="nofollow noreferrer">See link here</a>. So in other words a dark photon - a mediator for dar... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/482654/dark-matter-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>Is a particle's center of gravity at the center of its wave function or is it where we would measure the particle to be? When we measure a particle does its center of gravity shift to where the particle is measured?</p>
Answer: <p>The wave function only predicts the probability distribution of finding a p... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/450263/wave-particle-duality-and-gravity |
Question: <p>Today it was told me that wave properties of a particle increase if the temperature decreases. I'm surprised because I have never listened a similar thing, but I think that it's very interesting. </p>
<p>Could you explain me why it happens? </p>
Answer: <p>I think that your teacher (?) asked you about <... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/182669/wave-particle-duality-and-temperature |
Question: <p>I have watched a lot of videos about quantum theory/mechanics and other and when they speak, say, about double slit experiment they say that 'if you shoot an electron...'. Then I read somewhere that photon exhibits w-p duality. And on some other video the narrator said that all elementary particles can beh... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/346287/are-all-elementary-particles-exhibit-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I'm reading the book <span class="math-container">$[1]$</span> (which is not a scientific communication book, rather a student-friendly introduction to Quantum Mechanics).</p>
<p>Jakob <span class="math-container">$[1]$</span> then writes:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>Many people unfamiliar with quantum mechani... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/594303/doubt-on-wave-particle-duality-in-quantum-mechanics |
Question: <p>According to the formula $λ=h/mv$ for the De Broglie wavelength, as the mass increases, it becomes a greater coefficient to multiply the velocity by, and the larger number in the denominator makes the wavelength so small that it can't be detected for high mass objects. My physics teacher used this reasonin... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/348602/why-does-the-wave-particle-duality-become-unnoticeable-with-more-mass |
Question: <p>We state that electrons are subatomic particles with no known subcomponents.</p>
<p>We discover that these electrons behave as waves.</p>
<p>We also discover that sometimes, these electrons behave as point-particles.</p>
<p>We conclude that they're the both at the same time.</p>
<p>This, to me, sounds nons... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/636192/wave-particle-duality-seems-like-an-obvious-example-of-a-contradiction-that-peop |
Question: <p>Okay,so I am learning about the double slit experiment done with electrons. I saw this picture, which shows the interference pattern being built up slowly with increasing number of electrons:
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/ACeod.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/ACeod.gif" alt... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/208818/clarification-about-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I know that all matter particles have a dual nature, particle and wave. And apart from matter, photons also have dual nature. But what about bosons, specifically Higgs bosons? Do they show both wave and particle characters?</p>
Answer: <p><em>All</em> particles have a wave nature. Therefore, the Higgs bos... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/600069/wave-particle-duality-for-higgs-boson |
Question: <p>A single photon travelling within a single wavelength contains a dual nature, in that it can behave as a particle or a wave depending upon the chosen experiment or measure.</p>
<p>When the duality behaves as a particle, is it true to say that at the point of measurement or detection that the wave-form of ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/376333/particle-wave-duality |
Question: <p>In double slit experiment, if flux of electrons are very low, then..</p>
<ol>
<li><p>if one "observes" the electrons before it has reached the slit, it "behaves" as a particle and this is due to the interaction (reflection?) of photons with the electrons.</p></li>
<li><p>The screen depicts an interferenc... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/275671/wave-particle-duality-double-slit-experiment |
Question: <p>Whenever we can observe photons immediate, they are particles. That includes that photons have a inner structure with periodically varying electric and magnetic fields. The EM field of a radio antenna exists because this field consists a lot of photons with their periodically changing EM components. Whenev... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/122536/are-there-new-concepts-for-the-explanation-of-the-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>I always thought of the Uncertainty Principle as a logical consequence that follows from the Wave-Particle duality, or more precise, from the fact that all particles behave as waves as long as they do not interact with other particles.</p>
<p>From basic wave properties, it's clear that you cannot know bot... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/197821/is-the-uncertainty-principle-a-logical-consequence-from-the-wave-particle-dualit |
Question: <p>SO, I'm just an enthusiast who's been doing some reading - and I don't have the level of math training to get my answer from the equations - so I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question. </p>
<p>I have been reading about the photon interference patterns in the double-slit and interferometer expe... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/297497/could-wave-particle-duality-not-be-duality-but-a-constant-switching-between-par |
Question: <p>If time is discrete, such as the Planck's length, would the transition from one frame of time to the next explain why it appears matter changes from a particle to a wave? During that infinitely small space between each frame we can not measure the particle and it appears as a wave?</p>
Answer: | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/73254/wave-particle-duality-because-of-discrete-time |
Question: <p>Photons, electrons are subatomic particles to which the wave-particle duality applies. Protons are heavier quantum objects and posses quantum tunneling which is a wave character. </p>
<p>What is the upper limit in size or mass after which quantum effects (wave-particle duality) no longer hold?</p>
Answer... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/254367/what-is-the-upper-limit-of-objects-behaving-as-a-wave-particle |
Question: <p>I am a 12th grade student I want to clarify some fundamentals about waves.It's clear to me when some one says sound propagates
As a wave(the variations of air densities as a function of distance from the source at an instant of time represent a sinusoidal function.).But what does it mean when someone says ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/689143/what-exactly-is-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>In a double-slit experiment, interference patterns are shown when light passes through the slits and illuminate the screen. So the question is, if one shoots a single photon, does the screen show interference pattern? Or does the screen show only one location that the single photon particle is at?</p>
Ans... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/22923/slit-screen-and-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>In experiments it is easy to discern between 2 and more-than-2 fringes on a screen, making the double-slit experiment the default one for wave-particle tests.</p>
<p>Let's say we shoot massive particles (e.g. electrons) towards a slit. Would the image behind it be the same no matter if we consider the ele... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/197350/is-wave-particle-duality-not-clear-from-the-single-slit-experiment |
Question: <p>Is it possible that the wave-like behavior of particles in double slit experiments is just an outcome of particle distribution? Can we regard or treat a normal or Gaussian distribution as wave-like? </p>
<p>Supposing the pegs on a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_machine" rel="nofollow">Galton ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/250545/evaluating-double-slit-experiment-for-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>If electromagnetic waves are the same as photons would gravitational waves be the same as gravitons?</p>
Answer: <p>Yes, all particles, atoms, and molecules smaller than about a C60 molecule exhibit both wave and particle properties. It's not until the object is larger than its wave function that it begin... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/217043/if-photons-have-a-wave-particle-duality-would-gravitons-have-a-wave-particle-dua |
Question: <p>When answering questions about light, I see that we conveniently shift between wave and particle nature of light to match the answer-- isn't this really cheating? </p>
<p>Or, is it the principle that the observation changes the nature of the object?</p>
Answer: <p>You wouldn't think it's cheating if you ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/8715/isnt-wave-particle-duality-of-light-actually-cheating |
Question: <p>I know that relativistic DeBroglie wavelength is given by
$λ = h/γmv$.
And $γ ≥ 1$, so at higher speed $λ$ will get shorter and shorter, does this mean it will start behaving like a particle and wave picture would be destroyed?</p>
Answer: <p>Wave Particle Duality principle is valid for particles of any s... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/421341/does-wave-particle-duality-exist-at-high-speed |
Question: <p>There is an account on dualities in quantum field theories and string theories by Polchinski from last week </p>
<p><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5704">http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5704</a></p>
<p>At the end of page 4, he writes the wave/particle dichotomy arises from <em>different limits</em> you can... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/154510/wave-particle-duality-as-result-of-taking-different-limits-of-a-qft |
Question: <p>I gather that Bohm denies the notion that the act of measurement decides whether a photon will be a wave or a particle. Bohm's idea seems to be that the photon is always a particle with a real trajectory that always passes through one OR the other slit, NOT bizarrely through both slits simultaneously, in t... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/435630/bohms-view-of-double-slit-experiment-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>With my pop-sci level of understanding, it seems to me that quantum fields exhibit particle-like properties only when interacting with a different quantum field - i.e. electromagnetic field interacts with electron field to produce an excitation of an electron and this interaction is localized so both field... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/826859/wave-particle-duality-interactions-of-like-different-quantum-fields |
Question: <blockquote>
<p>W.L.Bragg, the pioneer in x-ray diffraction, gave this lucid but vivid interpretation:"The dividing line between the wave & particle nature of matter & radiation is the moment <strong>now</strong>. As this moment steadily advances through time, it coagulates <strong>a wavy future int... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/167195/understanding-the-interpretation-of-wave-particle-duality-by-w-l-bragg |
Question: <p>In double slit experiments, light is observed in two distinct conditions (no measurement of trajectory / measurement of trajectory) that bring two different results (no interferences / interferences).</p>
<p>In such a context, light is given two types of representation (wave / particle) which, while match... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/503720/should-particle-wave-duality-be-understood-as-a-description-of-lights-dual-natu |
Question: <p>Reading about dual nature of light, and atomic transitions, it seems to me, maybe wrongly, that the dual nature depends on the way we look at the phenomena. </p>
<p>Suppose a water wave travels and reach another water source. Why can't we talk about a condition like:</p>
<p><span class="math-container">$... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/408599/misunderstood-of-wave-particle-dualism |
Question: <p>I've been told my whole life that light is either a wave or a particle. When it's traveling through space, it's a wave. When it hits a wall, or a photo-sensitive chemical strip or something similar, it's a particle. </p>
<p>However, upon looking back all of the examples I've seen I can only recall inst... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/129892/light-has-a-wave-particle-duality-how-do-we-know |
Question: <p>This was an mcq question in which only <strong>1 option</strong> is correct . The question stated -</p>
<p>Two Photons having -</p>
<ol>
<li><p>equal wavelength have equal linear momenta</p></li>
<li><p>equal energy have equal linear momenta </p></li>
<li><p>equal frequency have equal linear momenta </p... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/515298/a-simple-question-on-wave-particle-duality |
Question: <p>We know that light (and other particles) displays particle wave duality, or the ability to be a particle and a wave at the same time. After that it becomes confusing. We also know that gravity is a sort of indentation in the space time continuum. Finally, we know that light has a gravitational field. So co... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/246243/could-particle-wave-duality-be-caused-by-gravity |
Question: <p>This would explain why speed and position cannot be measured at the same time, since either the wave would be traveling (speed) or enclosed and standing (position). The act of enclosing it (to be observed) could explain the effects of observation as well.</p>
<p>I asked a similar question some time ago an... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/78074/why-the-wave-particle-duality-cannot-be-explained-as-a-traveling-standing-wave-d |
Question: <p>I recently read</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/disentangling-the-wave-particle-duality-in-the-double-slit-experiment/" rel="nofollow"><em>Photons act like they go through two paths, even when we know which they took</em></a>, at Ars Technica,</p>
</blockquote>
<p>wh... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/54385/does-this-experiment-on-wave-particle-duality-and-complementarity-disprove-quant |
Question: <p>De Broglie stated electrons can travel as particles and waves. Electrons show its waves properties when they can diffract through a carbon layer. So, I am not sure about his statement which human also can diffract through a gap. </p>
Answer: | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/185681/waves-particle-duality-of-human-body |
Question: <p>The screen is the Y axis and the line perpendicular to it is the X axis. We fire an electron with a well-defined momentum <span class="math-container">$p_x$</span> in the X direction. Shouldn't the x-co-ordinate of the particle follow a probabilistic distribution of wavelength <span class="math-container">... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/668399/how-does-wave-particle-duality-explain-the-interference-pattern |
Question: <p>There is a lot of reading to do on this to fully understand it, but without doing that reading is there a short explanation as to why and how light behaves as a wave and a particle?</p>
Answer: <p>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_%28wave_propagation%29" rel="nofollow noreferrer">inte... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64406/light-particle-wave-duality |
Question: <p>This may be an incredibly dumb question, but I'm asking it anyway.</p>
<p><strong>What is wrong in thinking that particles are just waves with amplitude zero?</strong></p>
Answer: <p>By the Born interpretation, the probability of finding a particle near a point $x$ is $|\psi(x)|^2$. If $\psi(x) = 0$, th... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/194397/wave-particle-duality-particles-as-a-special-case-of-waves |
Question: <p>Is wave-particle duality a real concept or a pedagogical tool? In a less opinion-based way: what are <em>particle properties</em> and <em>wave properties</em> of a particle (that we speak of particle properties of particles nicely encompasses the problem).</p>
<p>Judging by the recurrent themes in the ques... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/668148/particle-and-wave-like-properties |
Question: <p>My question is pretty much as the subject suggests. Recently Fabrizio Carbonne and a team from EPFL have managed to image the wave particle duality of light. I thought however that this was a technical impossibility given the measurement effect and what Bell’s inequalities told us about the reality of supe... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/422889/why-doesn-t-simultaneous-wave-particle-observation-collapse-the-wave-function |
Question: <p>EDIT : You're about to read the first iteration of my question which is flawed. Please go to the end to see an illustration of what I meant to say. The phenomenon I was talking about is called emission spectrum.</p>
<hr>
<p>I remember watching an experiment in a documentary, <em>The Elegant Universe</em>... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/268250/experiment-that-demonstrates-the-wave-particle-duality-of-electrons |
Question: <p>We already know about the 4 fundamental forces in nature which are gravitational,electromagnetic,weak nuclear and strong nuclear forces.</p>
<p>There are several other questions on this website which are somewhat related to this question but I want to know if there is any other fundamental force which is ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/482902/is-there-a-5th-fundamental-force-which-may-be-responsible-for-the-behavior-of-ma |
Question: <p>I'm studying atomic spectras and got puzzled about <em>light-quantization</em>. I'll expose my effort to understand it so far.</p>
<p><strong>Blackbody radiation</strong></p>
<p>Around the year $1900$ Planck explained <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/414084/quantization-and-wave-particle-dualism-of-light |
Question: <ol>
<li><p>What exactly does wave particle duality mean does it mean that an electron is a particle which is moving like a wave or does it mean that an electron and a photon is neither a wave nor a particle and something completely different or is it as if it’s sometimes a wave and the other times a particle... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/643335/what-is-the-basis-of-description-of-matter-and-energy-in-our-universe-in-the-for |
Question: <p>I read about Erwin Schrödinger describing wave particle duality with something called a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function" rel="nofollow noreferrer">wave function</a>. What does a wave function mean?</p>
Answer: <p>So before we get into this there is a few levels of explanation to this ... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/712920/what-is-a-wave-function |
Question: <p>To demonstrate wave-particle duality, it is often stated that we need to perform a double slit experiment. However, it seems that in a single slit experiment, individual photons or electrons behave like a wave. This is a reference for diffraction with a single slit: <a href="https://opentextbc.ca/universit... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/720559/why-do-we-need-a-double-slit-experiment-when-a-single-slit-experiment-shows-tha |
Question: <p>In the famous double slit experiment, a photon (say) can behave as wave or particle depending on whether there is (or how) an outside observer measuring the experiment.</p>
<p>Copenhagen interpretation interpret this wave-particle duality by saying that the photon behaves as wave when unobserved, and the a... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/412294/is-electron-photon-wave-or-particle-in-feynman-sum-over-histories-formulation |
Question: <p>According to Planck's law, <span class="math-container">$E=hf$</span> is applicable for photon and photons show wave-particle duality. But De Broglie proved that electrons and other substances also show wave-particle duality and he showed that
<span class="math-container">$\lambda=h/p$</span>. But I have s... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/591998/is-e-hf-applicable-for-all-types-of-particle |
Question: <p>So, I'm currently doing some research about the way in which classical physics connects to quantum physics, and I came across the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, and the implications of Hamilton's characteristic function.</p>
<p>I found out that, since:</p>
<p><span class="math-container">$$ \frac{\partial{S(q_i... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/823685/hamiltons-characteristic-function-wave-particle-duality-and-constant-action-su |
Question: <p>All particles exhibit wave-particle duality. And I have a strange question. </p>
<p>Why does a larger system, liken an atom that is just a set of smaller systems, itself exhibit wave-particle duality?</p>
<p>In principle all large systems can be defined as a set of smaller systems. An atom is a set of nu... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/52101/is-a-large-system-just-a-set-of-smaller-systems |
Question: <p>Is the Dual nature (wave - particle duality) of Matter completely proved or just a theory and are the objects (water,rubber ball, car, apple etc.) that we see all around us in day to day life exhibit dual nature (wave - particle duality) in their natural state of existence (as perceived by the human eye) o... | https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/86270/dual-nature-of-matter-at-gross-level |
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