{"id":217613,"date":"2025-07-11T05:15:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/speed-test-of-tunneling-electrons-challenges-alternative-interpretation-of-quantum-mechanics"},"modified":"2025-07-11T05:15:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:15:52","slug":"speed-test-of-tunneling-electrons-challenges-alternative-interpretation-of-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/speed-test-of-tunneling-electrons-challenges-alternative-interpretation-of-quantum-mechanics","title":{"rendered":"Speed test of \u2018tunneling\u2019 electrons challenges alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/speed-test-of-tunneling-electrons-challenges-alternative-interpretation-of-quantum-mechanics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photons<\/a> traveled along the waveguide and tunneled into the barrier, they also tunneled into the secondary waveguide, jumping back and forth between the two at a consistent rate, allowing the research team to calculate their speed.<\/p>\n<p>By combining this element of time with measurements of the photon\u2019s rate of decay inside the barrier, the researchers were able to calculate dwell time, which was found to be finite.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers write, \u201cOur findings contribute to the ongoing tunneling time debate and can be viewed as a test of Bohmian trajectories in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+mechanics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum mechanics<\/a>. Regarding the latter, we find that the measured energy\u2013speed relationship does not align with the particle dynamics postulated by the guiding equation in Bohmian mechanics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the photons traveled along the waveguide and tunneled into the barrier, they also tunneled into the secondary waveguide, jumping back and forth between the two at a consistent rate, allowing the research team to calculate their speed. By combining this element of time with measurements of the photon\u2019s rate of decay inside the barrier, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}