Wave-Particle Complementarity and Reciprocity of Gauss Sums on Talbot Effects
Mathematical Physics
2007-05-23 v1 math.MP
Number Theory
Abstract
Berry and Klein (J. Mod. Opt. (1997) 43 2139-2164) showed that the Talbot effects in classical optics are naturally explained by Gauss sums studied in number theory. Their result was based on Helmholtz equation. In this article, we explain the effect based on Fresnel integral also by Gauss sums. These two explanations are shown to agree with by the reciprocity law of Gauss sums. The relation between this agreement and the wave-particle complementarity is also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math-ph/0207011,
title = {Wave-Particle Complementarity and Reciprocity of Gauss Sums on Talbot Effects},
author = {Shigeki Matsutani and Yoshihiro Ônishi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0207011},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
AMS-TeX, 14 pages