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Conference on the Nature of Light: What is a Photon?M. J. Mobley, "The nature of light: a description of photon diffraction based upon virtual particle exchange," Proc. SPIE 5866, 172-182 (2005).Mobley, M. J., "The nature of light: a description of photon diffraction based upon ...
The interpretation of the nature and behavior of light and material particles has evolved significantly over time. Under the presumed infallibility of Newton, who was supporting a corpuscular theory of light, Grimaldi, for the first time, put forward the hypothesis that light: “saltem aliquando ...
The finding, published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Photonics, helps extend the experimental capabilities of quantum optics and possibly of future quantum technologies, according to the researchers. The experiment is the first quantum delayed-choice under strict Einstein locality conditions,...
Recently, a thought experiment was proposed to separate the wave and particle attributes of a quantum entity39. Following the theoretical conception, here, we experimentally demonstrate the separation of the wave and particle attributes of a single photon based on the quantum Cheshire cat concept for...
Light has a dual nature, wave-like and corpuscular-like; as an electromagnetic radiation, light consists of an electric and a magnetic field perpendicular to each other and, at the same time, perpendicular to the direction the energy is transported by the electromagnetic wave; the electric field...
12) and other sources of background which further degrade the SBR. As expected, the approximated nature of the faster estimators causes a further deterioration of their performance, in our cause by approximately 15%. By looking at the line profiles (Supplementary Fig. 13), we observe the ...
Particle physics is driven by the quest to understand nature at the smallest and most fundamental level. Scientific inquiry can at times be led by experiment, i.e. when measurements either resolve puzzles, sometimes in surprising ways, or open new questions. At other times theory takes the lead...
The size resolution ideally depends on the monotonic nature of the response curve. Since the counter response is strongly dependent on the index of refraction of particles of a given size, the size discrimination will be quite variable for an aerosol of heterogeneous composition. Single-particle opt...
“Methods”). For the VFFR, we combine established metrological techniques; namely, Stokes polarimetry, interferometry, and digital propagation32. Our approach explicitly relates measurements in different 2D planes, reconstructing the full 3D field volume. Further details of the experiment are given in...