As the optical precursor and main wave packet traveled through a second group of rubidium atoms, the scientists took measurements on the speed of the two photon components.
随着光前驱和主波包通过第二组铷原子，科学家就可以对这两个光子成分的速度进行测量。
This extension of the photoelectric effect, in which one photon knocks one electron off the edge of an atom, could make physicists reconsider when light is a wave and when it's a particle.
在这种光电效应的延伸中，一个光子从原子的边缘打出一个电子，这可能要使物理学家们重新考虑光在什么情况下是波，什么情况下是粒子。
But this study is the first to experimentally show that optical precursors exist at the single-photon level, and that they are the fastest part of the single-photon wave packet.
而这次的研究则是第一次用实验证明，在单个光子层次上也存在着光前驱，而且它们也是单个光子的波包中最快的部分。
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