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What's the underlying physical mechanism? The photon is absorbed and reemitted as two?
by sriku 7y ago
What's the underlying physical mechanism? The photon is absorbed and reemitted as two?
- anonytrary 7y agoI guess one could draw the Feynman diagram for this interaction, but I don't think it makes a whole lot of sense to talk about a physical "mechanism". If the quantum numbers are conserved (energy, momentum, angular momentum, etc.) then it can just happen.
- jrwr 7y agoConfirmed, Its magic!
- ganzuul 7y agoCan't say about the physics, but with my recent approximate knowledge of algebraic structures I think it has to mean that QM is an OK division algebra, meaning something is invertible. If the invertible thing is a matrix then it might have nice computational implications.