Fun and Educational Quantum Videos
Links collected by
V. R. Horowitz
Is light a particle or a wave?
(by my friend Colm!)
Minutephysics quantum
Quantum phenomena summarized
Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics:
Copenhagen interpretation
. Entanglement and more
Many worlds
(2 minutes)
de Broglie Bohm / Pilot wave
De Broglie Bohm (Pilot wave)
(6 minutes, oil drop demo).
De Broglie Bohm
Pros and cons about pilot wave
(16 minutes).
Complex numbers are necessary
Imaginary numbers are real
Photoelectric effect: The particle nature of light!:
Albert Einstein and The Photoelectric Effect
Photoelectric effect technology: cameras
Momentum of light:
Light has momentum
Optical tweezers
Explain optical tweezers
Compton scattering: the particle nature of light!
Compton scattering
Compton derivation
Visualizing light and wave reflection
Imposter phenomenon
Why does light diffract through a single slit
Wave-particle duality of particles
What is a wavefunction?
Bose einstein condensation
Cooling
How a wavefunction works with probability (short)
Schrodinger's cat
Stern Gerlach
Energy uncertainty principle
Evanescent waves / quantum tunneling
Quantum tunneling
Quantum tunneling technologies, summarized
How to find new particles
Short: wavepacket animation
Atom visualization
Atom visualization 2
Position-momentum uncertainty is a result of wave-nature
Adding waves
Double and single slit diffraction
Double slit derivation
Single slit derivation
Wavepacket equation
Polarization
Photodiode
De Broglie wavelength (wave-nature of particles)
Bose-einstein condensate animation
Bose Einstein Condensate: Cooling
Experimental images: interferometery with atoms
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DOI: 10.1393/ncr/i2014-10105-7
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