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a quantum of electromagnetic radiation

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A tentative theory of light quanta. Philosophical magazine, 47: 446-458, 1924(a) (33).

De Broglie's "A tentative theory of light quanta": a commented translation/"Uma teoria experimental dos quanta de luz" de Louis de Broglie: uma traducao comentada/"Una teoria experimental de la cuenta de luz" de Louis de Broglie: una traduccion comentada

Wineland taught specialists to trap microparticles that carry an electric charge (for example, atoms and ions), and also to monitor and measure their state with the help of light quanta [5].

An anthology of the distinguished achievements in science and technique. Part 39: Nobel prize laureates in physics for 2011-2015

The hypothesis of 'light quanta' was advocated by Einstein in 1905, (1) which was two decades earlier than the formalism of quantum theory by Shrodinger (2) and Heisenberg.

Photonic quantum information: science and technology

("All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, 'What are light quanta?' Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself."--Albert Einstein (1951) quoted in Raymond W.

What is light? A coda

Later chapters take a closer look at the photon source domain and field propagators, the photon vacuum and light quanta in Minkowskian space, and two-photon entanglement associated with the biphoton in space-time.

Light: The Physics of the Photon

The new test system will enable the simultaneous study of one hundred light quanta (photons) and their complex quantum mechanical relationships ("quantum entanglement") - a far greater number than was previously possible.

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