de Broglie’s hypothesis
According to De Broglie’s theory of matter waves, each particle of matter with linear momentum is also a wave. The amount of a particle’s linear momentum is inversely proportional to the wavelength of a matter wave associated with that particle. The wavelength of any matter could be determined from Einstein’s coupling of wavelength to momentum p, in the formula: 𝝺= h/p ,where h is Planck's constant.
The de Broglie wavelength is not significant for macroscopic objects because it is too small to observe compared to the object's size.
The Davisson and Germer experiment does provide direct verification of the De Broglie hypothesis of the wave nature of moving bodies.
