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单词 photon
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Definition of photon in English:

photon

noun ˈfəʊtɒnˈfoʊtɑn
Physics
  • A particle representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. A photon carries energy proportional to the radiation frequency but has zero rest mass.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The team has also made progress in using photons to carry quantum information between calcium qubits.
    • A photon has zero rest mass, but it carries energy and momentum.
    • Until now, physicists have only been able to entangle photons, electrons and atoms, using different methods in each case.
    • The world of the realist is populated by electrons and photons, quarks and gluons.
    • Tiny particles such as photons or atoms can readily be put into a quantum superposition existing in two different states or places at once.

Derivatives

  • photonic

  • adjective
    Physics
    • Along with Tapp, he is also developing a scanner for measuring body composition that combines induction tomography with an optical imaging technique called photonic scanning.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At the heart of this approach are the photonic wavepackets that exhibit well-defined photon number and modal character.
      • In photonic technology, or photonics, the use of electrons moving through semiconductors as information carriers is replaced with the movement of light waves, as measured in units of energy called photons.
      • Laser or photonic engines, because they might be propelled by laser beams inflating a gigantic sail, may have even larger specific impulses.
      • Such band gaps are the photonic analogue of the electronic band gaps displayed by conventional crystals, but here they prevent photons - rather than electrons - from propagating.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Greek phōs, phōt- 'light', on the pattern of electron.

Rhymes

proton
 
 

Definition of photon in US English:

photon

nounˈfoʊtɑnˈfōtän
Physics
  • A particle representing a quantum of light or other electromagnetic radiation. A photon carries energy proportional to the radiation frequency but has zero rest mass.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The team has also made progress in using photons to carry quantum information between calcium qubits.
    • Until now, physicists have only been able to entangle photons, electrons and atoms, using different methods in each case.
    • The world of the realist is populated by electrons and photons, quarks and gluons.
    • Tiny particles such as photons or atoms can readily be put into a quantum superposition existing in two different states or places at once.
    • A photon has zero rest mass, but it carries energy and momentum.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Greek phōs, phōt- ‘light’, on the pattern of electron.

 
 
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