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I report the result of a which-way experiment based on Young's double-slit experiment. It reveals which slit photons go through while retaining the (self) interference of all the photons collected. The idea is to image the slits using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Hu Zhan

Some modified two-slit interference experiments claim to demonstrate a violation of Bohr's complementarity principle. A typical such experiment is theoretically analyzed using wave-packet dynamics. The flaw in the analysis of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-25 Tabish Qureshi

The quantum eraser variant of the double-slit experiment, and its 'delayed choice' sub-variant, are considered from the perspective of weak value and weak measurement theory (which is briefly reintroduced here). The interference fringes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Tom Rivlin

This experiment was conceived of as a method of transmitting information from inside a black hole to the outside. As it turns out, it doesn't work in the form described (and possibly not in any form), but the way in which Nature prevents…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-27 Satish Ramakrishna , Onuttom Narayan

Young's double slit experiment has often been used to illustrate the concept of complementarity in quantum mechanics. If information can in principle be obtained about the path of the photon, then the visibility of the interference fringes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Hanzhen Lin , Yu-Kun Lu , Vitaly Fedoseev , Yoo Kyung Lee , Jiahao Lyu , Wolfgang Ketterle

A recent experiment performed by S. S. Afshar et al. has been interpreted as a violation of Bohr's complementarity principle between interference visibility and which-path information in a two-path interferometer. We have reproduced this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Jacques , N. D. Lai , A. Dreau , D. Zheng , D. Chauvat , F. Treussart , P. Grangier , J-F Roch

We analyze a double-slit experiment when the interfering particle is "mesoscopic" and one endeavors to obtain Welcher Weg information by shining light on it. We derive a compact expression for the visibility of the interference pattern:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Facchi , A. Mariano , S. Pascazio

We show that we can know more than the orthodox view does, as one example, we make a new analysis about double-slit experiment, and demonstrate that we can measure the objective state of the particles passing through the two slits while not…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gao Shan

In a paper from 2006, Couder and Fort [1] describe a version of the famous double slit experiment performed with drops bouncing on a vibrated fluid surface, where interference in the particle statistics is found even though it is possible…

A modified double slit experiment of light was implemented. In the experiment, a spatial shape filter is used to manipulate the shape of cross section of laser beam. When this modified laser beam was shined on the double slit, the intensity…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Haisheng Liu

In an interferometer, path information and interference visibility are incompatible quantities. Complete determination of the path will exclude any possibility of interference, rendering the visibility zero. However, if the composite object…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Trifonov , Gunnar Bjork , Jonas Soderholm , Tedros Tsegaye

We propose a simple numerical experiment of two slits interference of particles. It disproves the popular belief that such an interference is incompatible with a knowledge which slit each particle came through or, more generally, ``quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir V. Kisil

The issue of interference and which-way information is addressed in the context of 3-slit interference experiments. A new path distinguishability ${\mathcal D_Q}$ is introduced, based on Unambiguous Quantum State Discrimination (UQSD). An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Mohd Asad Siddiqui , Tabish Qureshi

In this work we show that in double-slit experiment properties incompatible with Which Slit property can be detected without erasing the knowledge of which slit each particle passes through and without affecting the point of impact on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Giuseppe Nisticó

The existence of higher than pairwise quantum interference in the set-up, in which there are more than two slits, is currently under experimental investigation. However, it is still unclear what the confirmation of existence of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Arkady Bolotin

Diffraction phenomena of large molecules have been studied in many experiments, and these experiments are described by many theoretical works. In this paper, we study $C_{60}$ molecules single and double-slit diffraction with quantum theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Xiang-Yao Wu , Bo-Jun Zhang , Xiao-Jing Liu , Nuo Ba , Yi-Heng Wu , Hou-Li Tang , Jing Wang , Si-Qi Zhang

The double slit experiment provides a classic example of both interference and the effect of observation in quantum physics. When particles are sent individually through a pair of slits, a wave-like interference pattern develops, but no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-01 Joshua Kincaid , Kyle McLelland , Michael Zwolak

Student misconceptions of the double-slit experiment are abundant. We have designed an exercise that helps to overcome them.

Physics Education · Physics 2025-01-20 Beth Parks , Hans Benze

Diffraction on the slit can be interpreted in accordance with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. This elementary example hints at the importance of the information theory for the quantum physics. The role played by one particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Hradil , J. Rehacek

Double-slit diffraction is a corner stone of quantum mechanics. It illustrates key features of quantum mechanics: interference and the particle-wave duality of matter. In 1965, Richard Feynman presented a thought experiment to show these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Roger Bach , Damian Pope , Sy-Hwang Liou , Herman Batelaan