A new experiment captures a single parcel of light morphing between wave and particle.
Published in the April Physical Review A, the experiment dissects a light pulse associated with a single photon to expose wavelike and particle-like components. The results add to recent evidence suggesting that just as Schrödinger’s cat can be dead and alive at the same time, light can be a particle and a wave simultaneously at the quantum level.
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