“The wave nature of the photon could be extracted as a visibility of the interference pattern,” explains Tai Hyun Yoon, a physicist at IBS and a co-author of the study. Corroborating theoretical ...

Blue photon potential mass waves in space collapse instantly, nonlocally. Polarization of the blue photon is now defined, which instantly defines polarization of its time-conjoined partner; no space ...

More information: Qing-Feng Xue et al, Single- and two-photon wave-particle superpositions: Theory and experiment, Physical Review A (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022223.

The goal was to catch the photon in a paradox: acting like a wave when it should’ve been acting like a particle, or vice versa. Electrons exhibit wave properties as well as photons, ...

With light, the height of the wave is related to the chance that we will see a photon—a big peak is when we are most likely to have a photon arrive. Since the waves look nearly the same at ...

It’s in your physics textbook, go look. It says that you can either model light as an electromagnetic wave OR you can model light a stream of photons. You can’t use both models at the same ...

H. Yan et al. Experimental observation of simultaneous wave and particle behavior in a narrowband single-photon wave packet. Physical Review A . Vol. 91, April 2015, p. 042132. doi: 10.1103 ...

Quantum objects are notoriously shifty. Take the photon, for example. The quantum of light can act as a particle one moment, following a well-defined path like a tiny projectile, and a wave the ...

In a sense, then, a photon or any other quantum object acts like both a particle and a wave. This ‘wave–particle duality’ embodies many of the central conceptual mysteries of quantum ...

The team used an interferometer to split a photon wave function down two possible paths before meeting again. On each path, the team placed glass plates to change the polarization of light, ...