Single Molecule Experiments Challenge the Strict Wave-Particle Dualism of Light

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

关键词: photon;    wave particle dualism;    single molecules;    double slit experiment;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijms11010304

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Single molecule techniques improve our understanding of the photon and light. If the single photon double slit experiment is performed at the “single photon limit” of a multi-atom light source, faint light pulses with more than one photon hamper the interpretation. Single molecules, quantum dots or defect centres in crystals should be used as light source. “Single photon detectors” do not meet their promise—only “photon number resolving single photon detectors” do so. Particularly, the accumulation time argument, the only safe basis for the postulate of a strictly particle like photon, has so far not yet been verified.

【 授权许可】

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