The Wave Nature Of The Electron

Hironari Yamada

We all physicist have long been believed that an elementary particle is a wave as well as a particle, but we discuss in this paper that an electron (probably all fermions) is always a particle. Author claim that quantum mechanics (QM) is not such mysterious as Bohr stated that the wave turn to the particle by observation. We can understand QM by natural human sense. The wave nature of electrons is only an appearance or a phenomena but not intrinsic or substantial. An electron is an individual body, which interferes with other individual electrons. Interference is the key word instead of the wave to understand the quantum mechanics. Interference produces the wave nature and the uncertainty. When we determine that an electron is nothing but a particle, we will see the true meaning of wave function and the Schr?dinger’s equation.

Plinio Innocenzi

Carlos I. Calle

The major problem that physicists were trying to solve was that of the wave nature of the electron. In 1926, the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger presented an equation that described the wave behavior of the electron in the hydrogen atom. The physicist Max Born suggested instead that these waves were waves of probability; that is, they represented the probability of finding the electron in some region of space. In fact, an electron has a well-defined position only when it is being observed. Position is not an intrinsic property of an electron. The wave nature of electrons is the basis for the electron microscope, invented in 1932 by Ernst Ruska in Germany. Electron wavelengths are much shorter than those of visible light.

William Phelps Allis, Hans Mueller

Alexander V. Gritsunov, И. Н. Бондаренко, А. Г. Пащенко +1 more

Statistical dependences of quantum phenomena substantial for advance in nanoelectronic technology are discussed basing on the interpretation of de Broglie matter waves as real oscillations of the generalized coordinates of some natural oscillatory systems with distributed parameters (NOSs). E.g., electrons are supposed to be excited wave packets of natural electron-positron oscillatory system (NEPOS), not hard particles; photons are wave packets of natural electromagnetic oscillatory system (NEMOS) and so on. The Wheeler-Feynman's concept of “direct interparticle action” is developed for both the quantum radiation-absorption and the Coulomb interaction. The spatio-temporal localization of the NOS wave packets and Heisenberg's “uncertainty principle” both are supposed to be results of the permanent stochastic exchange with action quanta between different NOSs (e.g., NEPOS and NEMOS) according to the general laws of the statistical physics. The basic principles of quantum statistics (probability laws for the stochastic exchange with action quanta between the wave packets of NEPOS and NEMOS in the Minkowski spacetime) are discussed. The new physical sense of de Broglie wavefunctions is illustrated with the simplest quantum systems. E.g., “free electron” is presumed as a spatially localized area (within its “interval of uncertainty”) filled with “pink noise” of NEPOS oscillations. The finite probability of harmonics with large spatial wavenumbers in spectra of NEPOS and NEMOS “wide” wavepackets makes scattering of high-energy electrons still possible creating outward appearance of “point particles” existence.

George Paget Thomson