On the nature of quantons

DOI10.1023/A:1025382113814MaRDI QIDQ1408694zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond

Publication date 25 September 2003

Published in Science \& Education (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1025382113814

zbMATH Keywords

quantonsquantum mechanicswave particle duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Review text

The author makes a brief and informal (actually, not rigorous!) review on the concept of quanton, with the main goal of contributing to clarifying and simplifying the teaching of quantum physics. The term ``quanton is a neologism (among others advocated by the author) to replace the usual thinking about the wave-particle duality. In this sense, quantum objects (like electrons, photons, etc) are neither particles, nor waves, but quantons.

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