Re: one single photon generation

On Mar 31, 3:04 pm, "beda pietanza" <beda-pieta...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Some quantum experiments mention the emission of a single photon at a
time to better check the double slit experiment.

How is it possible to obtain that from a source ??

Photons are pseudo-particles. They behave as defined.
http://nobelprize.org/physics/articles/ekspong/index.html


Is it possible to generate of a single photon from by exciting a
single atom ??? how is it done ???

Yes...
http://nanotechweb.org/articles/news/4/6/4/1


Is it a stocastic process ??? once generate the single photon end up
surely to be absorbed (or detected) or can die out in a long run ???

No... there is a finite probability that energy aborption by an
atomic
oscillator can be causality related to the emission of another
atomic oscillator. Classical paths are still used to determine
that probability.

http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/visualizations/light/index.htm
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/em/lectures/lectures.html

Sue...


thanks, regards

beda pietanza


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