• trolololol@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    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.

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      10 days ago

      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.