Quantum Computer Captures Physics Of High Energy Particles

[Vmedvil2]

It seems that quantum computers are now able to accurately calculate the collision of high energy particles, read more at https://physicsworld.com/a/quantum-computer-captures-physics-of-high-energy-particles/

[write4u]

The quantization of the electromagnetic field, means that an electromagnetic field consists of discrete energy parcels, photons. Photons are massless particles of definite energy, definite momentum, and definite spin.

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In order to explain the photoelectric effect, Albert Einstein assumed heuristically in 1905 that an electromagnetic field consists of particles of energy of amount hν, where h is Planck's constant and ν is the wave frequency. In 1927 Paul A. M. Dirac was able to weave the photon concept into the fabric of the new quantum mechanics and to describe the interaction of photons with matter.^[1] He applied a technique which is now generally called second quantization,^[2] although this term is somewhat of a misnomer for electromagnetic fields, because they are, after all, solutions of the classical Maxwell equations.

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 In Dirac's theory the fields are quantized for the first time and it is also the first time that Planck's constant enters the expressions. In his original work, Dirac took the phases of the different electromagnetic modes (Fourier components of the field) and the mode energies as dynamic variables to quantize (i.e., he reinterpreted them as operators and postulated commutation relations between them). At present it is more common to quantize the Fourier components of the vector potential. This is what is done below.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization_of_the_electromagnetic_field#

An excellent sound representation of EM waves in space.

 

 

Edited March 9, 2021 by write4u