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We present a scheme in which we investigate the two-slit experiment and we show that the principle of complementarity is more fundamental then the uncertainty principle.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. S. Guerra

The quantum "mystery which cannot go away" (in Feynman's words) of wave-particle duality is illustrated in a striking way by Wheeler's delayed-choice GedankenExperiment. In this experiment, the configuration of a two-path interferometer is…

The delayed-choice quantum eraser represents an interesting experiment that exemplifies Bohr's principle of complementarity in a beautiful way. According to the complementarity principle, in a two-path interference experiment, the knowledge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Tabish Qureshi

In a typical two-slits experiments we face the question whether it is possible or not to attain knowledge about properties incompatible with Which-Slit property together with the measurement of the final impact point. A wide family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-21 Angela Sestito

In 1822 A. Fresnel described an experiment to separate a beam of light into its right- and left- circular polarization components using chiral interfaces. Fresnel's experiment combined three crystalline quartz prisms of alternating…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-20 Oriol Arteaga , Enric Garcia-Caurel , Razvigor Ossikovski

We analyze Niels Bohr's proposed two-slit interference experiment with highly charged particles that argues that the consistency of elementary quantum mechanics requires that the electromagnetic field must be quantized. In the experiment a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Gordon Baym , Tomoki Ozawa

Wave-particle duality in multi-path interference is fraught with issues despite substantial progress in recent years. It was experimentally shown that in certain specific conditions, getting path information in a multi-path experiment can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Tabish Qureshi

Young's double-slit interference experiment is central to quantum mechanics. While it has been demonstrated that an array of atoms can produce interference in light, it is a fundamental question to ask whether a single atom can act as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Yijia Zhou , Xinwei Li , Weibin Li , Hao Zhang

We present the first calculation of coherent backscattering with inelastic scattering by saturated atoms. We consider the scattering of a quasi-monochromatic laser pulse by two distant atoms in free space. By restricting ourselves to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Wellens , B. Gremaud , D. Delande , C. Miniatura

We address the problem of unambiguous discrimination and identification among quantum observables. We set a general framework and investigate in details the case of qubit observables. In particular, we show that perfect discrimination with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-15 Mario Ziman , Teiko Heinosaari

The two-slit experiment with quantum particles provides many insights into the behaviour of quantum mechanics, including Bohr's complementarity principle. Here we analyze Einstein's recoiling slit version of the experiment and show how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Radhika Vathsan , Tabish Qureshi

A three-slit ghost interference experiment with entangled photons is theoretically analyzed using wave-packet dynamics. A non-local duality relation is derived which connects the path distinguishability of one photon to the interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Mohd Asad Siddiqui

An open question in experimental physics is the characterization of gravitational effects in quantum regimes. We propose an experimental set-up that uses well-tested techniques in cavity optomechanics to observe the effects of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Abdulrahim Al Balushi , Wan Cong , Robert B. Mann

We show in this Comment that the interpretation of experimental data as well as the theory presented in Atat\"ure et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 618 (2000)] are incorrect and discuss why such a scheme cannot be used to "recover"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yoon-Ho Kim , Sergei P. Kulik , Morton H. Rubin , Yanhua Shih

In the last two decades, theories explaining the same experiments as well as special relativity does, were developed by using different synchronization procedures. All of them are ether-like theories. Most authors believe these theories to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 François Goy

The double-slit experiment has become a classic thought experiment, for its clarity in expressing the central puzzle of quantum mechanics -- wave-particle complementarity. Such wave-particle duality continues to be challenged and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Wangmei Zha , Lijuan Ruan , Zebo Tang , Zhangbu Xu , Shuai Yang

Building upon the recently introduced particle interpretation of the double-slit experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 133603 (2025)] which attributes interference phenomena to detector-coupled (bright) and detector-uncoupled (dark) states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jian-Jian Cheng , Jun-Ling Che , Lin Zhang , Ming-Liang Hu

We theoretically investigate quantum interference of two single photons at a lossy asymmetric beam splitter, the most general passive 2$\times$2 optical circuit. The losses in the circuit result in a non-unitary scattering matrix with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 Ravitej Uppu , Tom A. W. Wolterink , Tristan B. H. Tentrup , Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

Karl Popper had proposed an experiment to test the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics. The proposal survived for many year in the midst of no clear consensus on what results it would yield. The experiment was realized by Kim and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-14 Tabish Qureshi

On the basis of an alternative approach to micro-cat states (Found. of Phys., 41, No. 9, p.1502 (2011)) we develop a new model of the two-slit experiment. It explains both this particular experiment and how the wave properties of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 N. L. Chuprikov