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Exploring Spontaneous Decay in QM with Griffiths
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[QUOTE="bhobba, post: 6007575, member: 366323"] Just to add a bit to Peters excellent post, note that you don't have to view spontaneous emission as heuristically stimulated by a virtual photon. Its actually caused by the electron not being in a stationary state because its coupled to Quantum EM Field that exists everywhere. This is the precice reason you need Quantum Field Theory (from which the heuristic of a virtual photon comes from - why is it a heuristic - well as an actual particle they don't exist - but that is too much to go into now). It all explained in this interesting paper that since you are doing/have done Griffiths you likely can understand the detail of: [URL]http://www.physics.usu.edu/torre/3700_Spring_2015/What_is_a_photon.pdf[/URL] Its your first step into the beautiful world of Quantum Field Theory. If you want to go further I suggest the following books in no particular order: [URL]https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984513957/?tag=pfamazon01-20[/URL] [URL]https://www.amazon.com/dp/019969933X/?tag=pfamazon01-20[/URL] If you want to go further still write back for how to progress to THE book on QFT - Weinberg: [URL]https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521670535/?tag=pfamazon01-20[/URL] Thanks Bill [/QUOTE]
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