The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory.

BOHR, N. (1928). The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory. Nature, 121(3050), 580-590.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1928

Volume

121

Issue

3050

Pages

580-590

DOI

10.1038/121580a0

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/121580a0

Cited from

philosophy, physics

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4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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• Complementarity
  • In physics and measurement, Bohr's complementarity principle holds that wave and particle descriptions are mutually exclusive yet jointly required; conjugate observables such as position–momentum form complementary pairs.

    This sourceStates the principle of complementarity: wave and particle descriptions are mutually exclusive yet jointly required for a complete account of quantum phenomena. (

• Measurement and Disturbance
  • Quantum mechanics: Measuring the position of an electron requires a photon to interact with it, which transfers energy and momentum, disturbing the electron and making momentum measurement less precise, a phenomenon Bohr (1928) elaborated as the complementarity principle in which measurement context and apparatus are inseparable from the measured property.

    This sourceFoundational statement of the complementarity principle: measurement context and apparatus are inseparable from the property measured, formalizing photon-electron coupling as intrinsic to position–momentum measurement.

• Observer Effect
  • The disturbance is not a measurement-noise artifact but a fundamental consequence of the measurement-apparatus interaction and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link: only eigenstate measurement pairs satisfy the formal requirement.
• Wave-Particle Duality
  • Attempting to determine which slit each entity traversed (acquiring path information) destroys the complementarity principle: interference pattern vanishes to the extent that the path is determined.

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