The Nature of Light: What is a Photon? - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1420044249 ISBN 13: 9781420044249

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 2019

Riassunto

Focusing on the unresolved debate between Newton and Huygens from 300 years ago, The Nature of Light: What is a Photon? discusses the reality behind enigmatic photons. It explores the fundamental issues pertaining to light that still exist today.

Gathering contributions from globally recognized specialists in electrodynamics and quantum optics, the book begins by clearly presenting the mainstream view of the nature of light and photons. It then provides a new and challenging scientific epistemology that explains how to overcome the prevailing paradoxes and confusions arising from the accepted definition of a photon as a monochromatic Fourier mode of the vacuum. The book concludes with an array of experiments that demonstrate the innovative thinking needed to examine the wave-particle duality of photons.

Looking at photons from both mainstream and out-of-box viewpoints, this volume is sure to inspire the next generation of quantum optics scientists and engineers to go beyond the Copenhagen interpretation and formulate new conceptual ideas about light–matter interactions and substantiate them through inventive applications.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri, A. F. Kracklauer, Katherine Creath

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Gathering contributions from globally recognized specialists in electrodynamics and quantum optics, this volume continues the debate on the definition of a photon and the concept of wave-particle duality. After covering the mainstream view of the nature of light and photons, it presents a new and challenging scientific epistemology that explains how to overcome the prevailing paradoxes and confusions arising from the accepted definition of a photon as a monochromatic Fourier mode of the vacuum. It concludes with an array of experiments that demonstrate the innovative thinking needed to examine the wave-particle duality of photons.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1420044249
• ISBN 13: 9781420044249
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 452
• Redattore: Roychoudhuri Chandra, Kracklauer A.F., Creath Kathy
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania