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Quantum question?

Leigh Palmer wrote:
A single photon doesn't have a linewidth. Linewidth pertains to the
distribution of energies in an ensemble of photons.

Not true. A photon could only have zero line width if it was a
sine wave of infinite length. How this effect compares in importance
with thermal broadening, for instance, depends on the situation.

Ben Crowell
Fullerton College