Experimental Test of an Event-Based Corpuscular Model Modification as an Alternative to Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Physics
2015-06-15 v1 Optics
Abstract
We present the first experimental test that distinguishes between an event-based corpuscular model (EBCM) [H. De Raedt et al.: J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 8 (2011) 1052] of the interaction of photons with matter and quantum mechanics. The test looks at the interference that results as a single photon passes through a Mach-Zehnder interferometer [H. De Raedt et al.: J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 74 (2005) 16]. The experimental results, obtained with a low-noise single-photon source [G. Brida et al.: Opt. Expr. 19 (2011) 1484], agree with the predictions of standard quantum mechanics with a reduced of 0.98 and falsify the EBCM with a reduced of greater than 20.
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@article{arxiv.1303.5281,
title = {Experimental Test of an Event-Based Corpuscular Model Modification as an Alternative to Quantum Mechanics},
author = {Giorgio Brida and Ivo Pietro Degiovanni and Marco Genovese and Alan Migdall and Fabrizio Piacentini and Sergey V. Polyakov and Paolo Traina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.5281},
year = {2015}
}