Light: Duality or Discontinuity?

• 作者: Wei-Xing Xu
• 来源期刊: 光学与光子学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: DUALITY PHOTON DIMENSION Spectrum Line WIDTH LIGHT Absorption/Emission
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（1）
• 页码范围: 98-101
• 页数: 4页
• 分类号: O1

摘要

Based on the perturbation theory of quantum mechanics, we found that the time for a system to absorb a photon is the period of the light wave. This result gives us an exact definition of a photon, that is, a photon is just a single period of light wave. Furthermore, the detail analysis of the emission and absorption of the light wave in a system tells us that the light wave is not continuous as we believed before but discontinuous instead. Based on this result, we elucidate the origin of the particle-wave duality of the light/electromagnetic wave.