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H.-Y. Liu, J.-H. Huang, J.-R. Gao, Z. M. Suhail and S.-Y. Zhu, “Relation between Wave-Particle Duality and Quantum Uncertainty,” Physical Review A, Vol. 85, No. 2, 2012, Article ID: 022106. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.85.022106

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• TITLE: Light: Duality or Discontinuity?

  AUTHORS: Wei-Xing Xu

  KEYWORDS: Duality; Photon Dimension; Spectrum Line Width; Light Absorption/Emission

  JOURNAL NAME: Optics and Photonics Journal, Vol.3 No.1, March 26, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Based on the perturbation theory of quantum mechanics, we found that the time for a system to absorb a photon is the period of the light wave. This result gives us an exact definition of a photon, that is, a photon is just a single period of light wave. Furthermore, the detail analysis of the emission and absorption of the light wave in a system tells us that the light wave is not continuous as we believed before but discontinuous instead. Based on this result, we elucidate the origin of the particle-wave duality of the light/electromagnetic wave.