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On "Quantum interference with slits" and its "revisited"

Quantum Physics 2019-02-04 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Marcella in 2002 published a "quantum-mechanical" treatment of the famous single- and double-slit interference experiment in classical wave optics by a simple assumption that quantum mechanical wave function is a constant anywhere within a slit. Rothman and Boughn in 2011 commented that Marcella introduced no quantum physics into the problem other than\ a symbol substitution p=kp=\hbar k, and the used essentially the classical wave optics. In present comment, we point out that though Marcella made a fundamental mistake, the problem is nevertheless remediable to give the satisfactory quantum mechanical results which are in qualitatively agreement with experimental ones with material particles.

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@article{arxiv.1902.00015,
  title  = {On "Quantum interference with slits" and its "revisited"},
  author = {J. C. Ye and Y. Li and Q. Chen and S. G. Chen and Q. H. Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.00015},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures

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