The problem of wave-particle duality

Dugald R. Murdoch

Niels Bohr's theory of complementarity was an attempt to solve the enormous problems of interpretation – especially the problem of wave particle duality – that beset the quantum theory in the mid-twenties. By 1920 electromagnetic radiation could be conceived of either in terms of the wave model or in terms of the particle model, though neither conception alone was wholly adequate to the empirical data. By the mid-twenties the duality problem was quite general, applying to matter as well as to radiation. Quantum mechanics, the new quantum theory, could be interpreted partially in terms of one or other of the two models but not comprehensively in terms of either. Bohr's theory can be fully understood only against the background of the interpretative problems which it was intended to solve; and the root of these problems goes back to the very origin of the quantum theory, viz. the quantum hypothesis to the effect that in certain physical processes energy is transferred discontinuously in discrete amounts. Wave-particle duality was a development of the continuity-discontinuity duality which the quantum hypothesis introduced into physics. How did wave-particle duality arise?

Lei Xu

In the development of modern physics, wave-particle duality has become a major problem for many scientists, which has brought great impact on the development of classical physics. And in this process, Einstein's photoelectric effect experiment and De Broglie hypothesis played important roles in the research of wave-particle duality. In this paper, the author combined relevant theories to deduce this problem.

Eleftherios N. Economou

BI Si-wen

In the study of quantum remote sensing, quantum spectral imaging. Since the beginning of 2001, after three stages of basic theory, scientific experiment and key technology research, has made breakthrough progress and innovative results. With the deepening of the research work and needs, some basic theoretical issues and cutting-edge technical problems need to be explored and studied. This paper discusses wave-particle duality of light is one of the important content. In more than and 100 years, wave-particle duality of light as research has made important progress. But the wave-particle duality of light is like what? Wave-particle duality of light like mechanism is what? Has been the most intense debate on the issue of Optics and physicists. In this paper, the author firstly summarizes the wave-particle duality of light development history and present situation of the research study, describes the research ideas of wave-particle duality of light; on this basis, the author puts forward the application of lightstring concept focuses on the wave-particle duality of light phenomenological characteristic geometry shape and movement of the content; describes the wave-particle duality of light like generated string-light effect mechanism. To study the wave-particle duality of light like two, a profound understanding of wave-particle duality of light nature, put forward a new research method.

John C. Morrison