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Cutting the Tail of a Photon - American Physical Society

Cutting the Tail of a Photon - American Physical Society

Removing a mirror while a single photon is in the process of reflecting creates a quantum state of countless photons, theorists say.

There is no such thing as half a photon. As a fundamental particle, a photon is indivisible, but it can also be described in terms of its wave packet, implying a spatial distribution that could be cu… [+2368 chars]

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