Re:Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three
by vermilingua on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:05AM
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Forgive the layperson question, but: if all light carries the same energy regardless of frequency, would this experiment (where one photon is split into three with the same sum frequency) not violate conservation of energy?
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Re:Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three
by rpz on Monday March 02, 2020 @09:32PM
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The idea here is that what people generally regard as a "photon" today is actually one second's worth of oscillations of light at a particular frequency. Imagine each oscillation of light as the true elementary particle instead. There are plenty of those elementary particles within the classical "photon" that can be split out into smaller "photons" of a different frequency.