What is it about?
The article demonstrates that at a fundamental level there are no particles, there are only fields. While high energy physicists are comfortable with this, the same cannot be said with all low energy physicists. If quantum states are invariably described as fields in high energy physics, they are also fields at lower energy. They do not become particles with lower energy. The term particle is a misnomer and terms like "orbital" and "wave-particle duality" are simply wrong.
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Why is it important?
It is important because the hydrogen atom model is frequently incorrectly interpreted in nonrelativistic analysis with a particle electron. Also, it seems that no one has examined the kinetic energy components to the total kinetic energy. The energy analysis of 14 hydrogen atom states with up 3 kinetic energy components, and 1 potential energy can only be explained by a field representation. An explicit dynamic energy analysis of the spinning field of one state gave the same result as that obtained through the operator formalism. Several other general requirements could also only be satisfied with fields.
Perspectives
So many non-relativistic quantum mechanics books still represent the electron as a particle, while the terms "orbital" and "wave-particle duality" are ubiquitous. This situation must be confusing and duanting to many students of physics who may be put off continueing a study of physics by these apparent conundruns.
Dr. Jacek Adam Mroczkowski
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This page is a summary of: Schrödinger’s field equation, AIP Advances, February 2025, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0244520.
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