量子物理学简史
A Brief History of Quantum Physics Particles and Waves
An important problem in physics before the adoption of the quantum theory has been
the distinction between particle and wave phenomena.
At first glance, both concepts have very little in common: Nobody would treat a
flying bullet as a wave packet or the propagation of sound as a particle stream, but
when particles and wave-lengths get smaller, things aren't so clear:
In the century, Newton used both theories to cover the different aspects of light, explaining it’s periodic and interference as wave, and its linear propagation as particle
phenomenon. Later, the wave-theory of light has been generally accepted, as scientists
like Young and Fresno could explain most particulate behavior within the realm of the
wave-formalism. Except, that is, for one fundamental requirement: The obvious lack
of a physical medium which lead to the somewhat far-fetched and unsatisfying
``Ether'' hypothesis.
On the particle front, Dalton's Law of Multiple Proportions suggested, that chemical
substances consist of atoms of different masses. In the century, Boatman
developed his gas-theory based on atomistic concepts and experiments with cathode
rays showed that the electric charges always come in multiples of the elementary
charge e which is about Coulomb.
Plank's Constant
In the year 1900, Max Plank explained the energy spectrum of black body radiation
with the ad-hoc assumption, that the possible energy states are restricted to
, where is an integer, the frequency and the Plank constant, the
fundamental constant of quantum physics, with a value of
In 1888, Hertz demonstrated, that a negatively charged plate would discharge, if
exposed to ultraviolet light. ,Leonard later discovered the kinetic energy of the
electrons is independent of the light's intensity but correlated to its frequency, such
that
With some material dependent constant. In 1905 Einstein reformulated this relation to
Interpreting as the energy of a light particle, later called a photon.
Bohr's Atom Model
By analyzing the visible spectrum of Hydrogen, it was found that the light intensity
shows very distinct peaks at certain wavelengths. In 1885, Ballmer showed that the
wavelength is very accurately given by
(1.1)
This can be generalized to the Ryder equation, which also accounts for the non-visible
parts of the spectrum
(1.2)
This suggests that the electron in the Hydrogen atom is confined to certain energy
levels, which is in contradiction with classical mechanics.
The Bohr-Summerfield model accounted for this by introducing a quantum condition:
While the electrons are still assumed to circulate the nucleus on their classical orbits,
their angular momentum has to be a multiple of. This restriction could be justified by attributing wave properties to the electron and demanding that their corresponding
wave functions form a standing wave; however this kind of hybrid theory remained
unsatisfactory.
A complete solution for the problem came in 1923 from Heisenberg who used a
matrices-based formalism. In 1925, Schrödinger published an alternative solution
using complex wave functions. It took two years until Direct showed that both
formalisms were in fact equivalent.
Wave-Particle Dualism
In 1924, de Bogie assumed that -- in analogy to photons -- every particle of energy
and momentum can in fact be treated as a wave, whose frequency and
wave-vector are given by
(1.3)
This relation was verified in 1927 in diffraction experiments with electrons by
Davison and Gerber. The inverse effect -- particle behavior of photons -- has been
demonstrated 1933 in electron-photon dispersion experiments by Compton.
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