Event-based simulation of neutron interferometry experiments
Abstract
A discrete-event approach, which has already been shown to give a cause-and-effect explanation of many quantum optics experiments, is applied to single-neutron interferometry experiments. The simulation algorithm yields a logically consistent description in terms of individual neutrons and does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation. It is shown that the simulation method reproduces the results of several single-neutron interferometry experiments, including experiments which, in quantum theoretical language, involve entanglement. Our results demonstrate that classical (non-Hamiltonian) systems can exhibit correlations which in quantum theory are associated with interference and entanglement, also when all particles emitted by the source are accounted for.
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@article{arxiv.1208.2367,
title = {Event-based simulation of neutron interferometry experiments},
author = {Hans De Raedt and Fengping Jin and Kristel Michielsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2367},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in Quantum Matter