Tuesday 10 March 2020

electromagnetic radiation - Does a photon require an EM field to exist?


An excitation in the electromagnetic field is called an electromagnetic wave. The smallest possible part of the electromagnetic wave is called a photon. But if the photon is always accompanied by an electromagnetic field, then how is the compton effect possible, even theoretically, since if the electron is interacting with the photon, then it is inevitably also interacting with an electromagnetic field?




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