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TrickyDicky
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Both photons and electrons give the same kind of interference pattern in the double-slit experiment, but while in the case of electrons this carachteristic interference pattern is due to the probabilistic complex wavefunction of the Schrodinger equation within NRQM, for photons no such non-relativistic Schrodinger wavefunction exists, and apparently the interference pattern can be accounted simply by the classical real as opposed to complex EM wave, and I'm centering here just on the interference pattern, surely photons have particle properties such as the compton and photoelectric effects that are not justified by the classical wave theory, the important thing here is that these kind of properties in the case of electrons are justifies simply thru the NRQM wavefunction.
Is there a simple way to understand how such different mathematical entities as Schrodinger wavefunction and Maxwell EM waves produce the same experimental outcome?
Is there a simple way to understand how such different mathematical entities as Schrodinger wavefunction and Maxwell EM waves produce the same experimental outcome?