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I'd just like to know and understand how to relate these two things (photonic crystals & matter waves)

It is possible to consider two-dimensional photonic crystals in the microwave regime as analogies for matter waves. I am aware that photonic crystals affect the motion of photons in a similar way that semiconductor crystals affect the motion of electrons. Photons (behaving as waves) either do...

I understand the concept of matter waves. Light has wave-particle duality; it has both wave-like (electromagnetic wave) and particle-like (photons) properties. Similarly, according to de Broglie, all particles (electrons, protons, etc.) have a wave-like property, with their momentum (where...