The Quantumness in Detecting Electromagnetic Waves is Determined by the Interaction Properties of the Detector | Chapter 2 | Fundamental Research and Application of Physical Science Vol. 3

 Einstein’s 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect favorably modeled the published dossier while explicitly delimiting light as “indivisible light quanta”. One of the key benefits of Quantum Mechanics (QM) of 1925-26, is the release of discrete small of energy hv during some quantum level changes in atoms and molecules. These two modern advances have overturned the mathematical and exploratory knowledge grown over several centuries behind the ocular science and design, without successfully connecting the knowledge break epitomized by the still unresolved “wave-atom-duality” (WPD). Note that, optical learning and engineering fields are still successful using Huygens-Fresnel diffraction elemental (HF-DI) of 1817 and Maxwell’s wave equations of 1876, outside any controversy.  This phase resolves this dichotomy by removing the need for WPD. We provide a model for the atomic issuance as a discrete packet of strength hv, as required by QM, but that evolves and propagates out as a Maxwellian chaste exponential wave bundle, while diffractively spreading out obeying the HF-DI. The ongoing need to accept the bewitching WPD arises because we destitute been systematically and definitely exploring two together-step physical processes which happen during light-indicator interaction before the photoelectric data is create by our apparatus. The two steps are: (i) Linear size-amplitude stimulation induced on the detecting dipoles apiece light wave vector; (ii) which is before followed apiece quadratic energy assimilation step by the indicator. If the detector is an LCR oscillator (for radio waves), or an antiquated Bolometer (for higher repetitions), we would not observe any quantumness in the dossier. But, when we use a modern quantum photodetector utilizing higher commonness EM waves, we can count highly amplified current pulses of electrons, produce out of all of the released electron, bound quantity mechanically inside the indicator.

Author(s) Details:

C. Roychoudhuri,
Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.

N. Prasad,
NASA Langley Research Center, MS 468, Hampton, VA 23681, USA.

G. Fernando,
Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.

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