What is the nature of de Broglie matter wave? Is it longitudian or transverse?

[nohtha]

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for davisson and germer experiment(proof of wave nature of electron) the electron have wavelength of 1.66 angstrom approximate.Corresponding to this wavelength the electron have energy of 2.5 Kev approximate.Is this possible?The electron actual as a wave or it behave as a wave in special case only. In reality what is electron ? in same way for radiation also ,the radiation also behave as particle under certain condition only?

I just want to elaborate the wave nature of electron from davisson and germer experiment . there is resonance of energy (54 ev)provide to electron for which it show wave like behavior's.
give some better explanation for this.

 

[PeroK]

give some better explanation for this.

For an explanation of the behaviour of an electron, try quantum mechanics.

 

[berkeman]

give some better explanation for this.

I guess you could ask one of your graduate school Physics students to explain it to you...

I am a Physics professor for graduate level students

 

[Drakkith]

I just want to elaborate the wave nature of electron from davisson and germer experiment . there is resonance of energy (54 ev)provide to electron for which it show wave like behavior's.
give some better explanation for this.

Give a better explanation than what? The standard explanation using quantum mechanics (more accurately Quantum Field Theory)? Standard quantum physics gives us an extremely good explanation, so good that we can find virtually no discrepancies between experiments and theoretical predictions. There are no better explanations.

for davisson and germer experiment(proof of wave nature of electron) the electron have wavelength of 1.66 angstrom approximate.Corresponding to this wavelength the electron have energy of 2.5 Kev approximate.Is this possible?The electron actual as a wave or it behave as a wave in special case only. In reality what is electron ? in same way for radiation also ,the radiation also behave as particle under certain condition only?

Our best explanation is that electrons are excitations of an underlying field called the Electron Field. In fact, all matter is such, with each type of particle being an excitation of an underlying field. Even light is an excitation of an underlying field, the electromagnetic field.

So it's not that an electron is sometimes a wave and sometimes a particle, or that it is both a particle and a wave, but that the very idea of what a fundamental particle is requires a new definition. Fundamental particles are not tiny little balls. They also aren't waves. They are an entirely new type of 'thing' that requires an understanding of quantum physics to understand properly. Hence why everyone is so confused when first hearing about them.

 

[Demystifier]

give some better explanation for this.

Perhaps you are looking for an alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics? There are plenty of them, you can chose a one which best fits your intuition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretations_of_quantum_mechanics

Or perhaps you are just confused by the so called "wave-particle duality"? Perhaps
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0609163 Sec. 2 can help.

 

[gentzen]

I am a Physics professor for graduate level students

Sounds to me like you are a physics teacher in high school in some Spanish speaking country.

Or perhaps you are just confused by the so called "wave-particle duality"? Perhaps
https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0609163 Sec. 2 can help.

That reply could be quite helpful for you, at least if your English (and your QM background) is good enough to enjoy reading that section 2.

If you tell us your first language, then maybe we could try to better adjust our responses to you.

 

[Demystifier]

... Spanish speaking country.

... at least if your English ... is good enough ...

If you tell us your first language, ...

I'm curious, why do you think that his first language is Spanish? In any case, his English looks good enough to me, to read any physics text.

 

[gentzen]

I'm curious, why do you think that his first language is Spanish? In any case, his English looks good enough to me, to read any physics text.

If you look at the reactions, it looks to me like his overall communication caused confusion. Spanish is sufficiently similar to English that you don't realize immediately that somebody has serious trouble with it.

 

[Demystifier]

Spanish is sufficiently similar to English ...

In the title of the thread he wrote "longitudian", which of course should be longitudinal in English. But according to google translate, the Spanish word is also "longitudinal". So whatever his native language is, I'd bet it's not Spanish.