Quantitative complementarity in two-path interferometry
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Theory
Abstract
The quantitative formulation of Bohr's complementarity proposed by Greenberger and Yasin is applied to some physical situations for which analytical expressions are available. This includes a variety of conventional double-slit experiments, but also particle oscillations, as in the case of the neutral-kaon system, and Mott scattering of identical nuclei. For all these cases, a unified description can be achieved including a new parameter, , which quantifies the effective number of fringes one can observe in each specific interferometric set-up.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0311179,
title = {Quantitative complementarity in two-path interferometry},
author = {A. Bramon and G. Garbarino and B. C. Hiesmayr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0311179},
year = {2009}
}
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11 RevTex pages, 5 figures