C. atom building blocks

Below find a more technical tabulation that (having been long involved with electron phase-contrast imaging of atomic lattices) I might attribute to various idea-sets or paradigms for describing atoms and their constituents.

The last row in this table is inspired by the fact that high-resolution transmission-electron-microscope images of thin specimens on size-scales larger than the operating point-resolution can be interpreted as quantitative maps of exit-surface deBroglie phase-shift across the coherence-width of individual electrons. This is an interesting fact about a process that, regardless, is becoming increasingly useful in everyday detective-work on solids at the nano-scale.

Related references:

• • Louis-Victor de Broglie (1925) Recherches sur la Théorie des Quanta, Ann. de Phys. 10e série, t. III (translation on our blackboard site).

  • Edwin F. Taylor, Stamatis Vokos, John M. O'Meara, and Nora S. Thornber (Mar/Apr 1998) "Teaching Feynman's Sum Over Paths Quantum Theory", Computers in Physics 12, 190-199, link.

  • Spence, John C. H. (1988 2nd ed) Experimental high-resolution electron microscopy (Oxford U. Press, NY) ISBN 0195054059.