Macroscopic Virtual Particles Exist
General Physics
2022-10-17 v1
Abstract
Virtual particles expected to occur in microscopic processes as they are introduced, for instance by Feynman in the Quantum Electro Dynamics, as photons performing in an anonymous way in the interaction between two electrons. This note describes macroscopic virtual particles as they appear in classical evanescent modes and in quantum mechanical tunneling particles. Remarkably, these large virtual particles are present in wave mechanics of elastic, electromagnetic, and Schr\"odinger fields.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1811.02410,
title = {Macroscopic Virtual Particles Exist},
author = {Guenter Nimtz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.02410},
year = {2022}
}
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17 pages, 5 figures