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The enigma of photon behavior, photon spatial co-inhabitance
The notion that multiple photons can occupy the same spatial coordinates seems perplexing. How is this experimentally validated, considering the intricate challenges and oddities it presents?
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Is the electric field the same as probability amplitude of a photon?
I am a novice in Quantum Mechanics and have seen many authors interchangeably using the two terms in the introductory textbooks. But I have never seen it written explicitly anywhere 'The probability ...
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Dependence of ligh-matter strong coupling on incident laser power?
is the light matter strong coupling dependent upon incident laser power? According to the following expression the strength of the vacuum Rabi splitting can be given as
$$\hbar\Omega_\mathrm{R}=2\hbar ...
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Do microwave oven doors use specular reflection, if so, how does that occur in microwave vs visible light? [duplicate]
Please comment if you're gonna down vote so i can improve :)
I have poured over a lot of resources in the past few hours but have been unable to reach a satisfying answer, this question is more about ...
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Is there a field of physics that attempts to understand the properties of light from a single perspective? [closed]
Hearing about the wave-particle duality of light, I can’t stop wondering whether there is a field of study that attempts to understand the properties of light from a single perspective.
Is there such ...
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Quantum Electrodynamics explanation for refraction [duplicate]
I am trying to understand the fundamentals of Quantum Electrodynamics through the simple example of refraction. Let's start with a plane wave coherent state (or a number state) impinging on a boundary ...
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How does frequency mixing work in a non-linear crystal?
Current understanding:
Nonlinear optics is classified by the effect of an electric field applied to a medium. In nonlinear crystals, when a field is applied the dielectric polarization does not ...
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What is the experimental evidence for a quantized EM field?
I've recently been trying to understand on a deeper level what is the physical meaning or existance of photons, and relatedly, what is the experimental verification of their existance. We all learn ...
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Full transmission of monochromatic light for a given thickness of glass
If you read the QED from Feynman he says that it is possible to get a 100% transmission of light for a specific thickness of glass. He explains the phenomenon perfectly but I don't know how to ...
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How is Hue, Saturation and Brightness of colours explained via EM and QED?
Light is a electromagnetic wave and its wavelengths determines the colour of the light, so that would be the Hue.
But what determines the Saturation. The less saturated a colour is the more greyish ...
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What is the difference between surface plasmon and surface plasmon polariton?
I'm trying to understand this reading article linked below and I still don't know how to explain this simply, without need to derive everything mathematically. Can someone just write here how do SP's ...
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Do plasmons depend on the ambient EM field?
Imagine a situation:
There's an illuminated metal slab in vacuum. Normally, there are some plasmons created running all over the slab. What would happen if we had turned a giant magnet near the slab? ...
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What is light localisation?
Reading about plasmonic nanoparticles I faced the term "localised light".
How can one localise light? What are applications of it?
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