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minus-squaretrolololol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoThat’s cool In most fields " so fast that’s instantaneous" is pretty fast, but in nuclear and quantum physics that’s a whole new level. What is the order of magnitude of your " too fast ”? I will invert that to state the bandwidth in Hertz.
minus-squaremontechristolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 month agoTypical transition frequencies between two levels of an atom are 10^15Hz. The coupling between atoms and light is on the order of the decay rate at which photons are transmitted, which sits at around 10^6Hz.
That’s cool
In most fields " so fast that’s instantaneous" is pretty fast, but in nuclear and quantum physics that’s a whole new level.
What is the order of magnitude of your " too fast ”? I will invert that to state the bandwidth in Hertz.
Typical transition frequencies between two levels of an atom are 10^15Hz. The coupling between atoms and light is on the order of the decay rate at which photons are transmitted, which sits at around 10^6Hz.