Who has made an experiment or thought of spliting the Photon in Half?

Question

Photon comes out of the atom in one piece?

How do we know that quantum mechanics is right about packets of energy coming in King size ,medium size, and economy size? and no spliting? Im sugesting an experiment.

of course if photon is not an entity then its a different case.
Then there is no definition of a photon.

It just came into my mind="the Compton Experiment" some how I did not think of that before.

Answer 1

A photon cant be split in half, but it is possible to perform single photon interference experiments, whereby using a double slit apparatus one creates a situation where a photon if acting as a particle would pass through one slit or the other and produce an effect on something behind the slits, such as a photographic plate. When a double slit is used, and if no attempt is made to determine which slit the photon passes through, then the wave properties take over, and a different interference pattern results, according to the rules of diffraction, or Huygen's principle. Effectively, sending half the photon through one slit and half through the other. So in effect, an object can be in two places at one time, as long as nobody is looking.

Answer 2

A photon cannot be split into two photons, but it's wave function can be split up, for example, by sending the photon through a partially silvered mirror or a diffraction grating.

A photon can also be converted into several photons, for example, if it is absorbed by an electron, sending it to a higher energy state, which then reverts back to its original energy state in a series of steps. Each step will release a photon of lesser energy than the original.

Answer 3

Photons have no mass, and consist of only energy, so you cannot split them like you would an atom.

Furthermore, photons are indivisible packets of energy in accordance to quantum mechanics.

Answer 4

I think you mean proton. And people have tried to do that. But they found that quantum chromodynamics is right, and it is impossible to move the quarks that make up the proton very far apart, except when the temperature is extremely high. And when they're split apart, they are impossible to observe.

But you can't split a photon. You can't even keep it in one place for very long.

Answer 5

I have seen this somewhere before but can't remember the details.
My personal belief is that it is possible to split the photon but then you don't have two photons but two non-interacting pieces of string that must join with other pieces to be active again.