How does the electron pass from an energy state to the next one (like jumping)??? Howwww plz explain?

Question

i know quantum physics, but how can the electron pass from an energy state to the next one, is it like it disppears on the first energy state and appear on the second?????

Answer 1

An electron moves between energy states when it absorbs or emits a photon. As you know, an orbital does not represent an electron's circular motion around the nucleus; that's why they're not called "orbits" anymore. An orbital is just a probability distribution. When an electron moves to a different orbital, it simply has a new probability distribution; it doesn't physically move to another location.