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The phenomena of electron, neutron, atomic and molecular diffraction have been studied by many experiments, and these experiments are explained by some theoretical works. In this paper, we study electronic double-slit diffraction with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiang-Yao Wu , Bai-Jun Zhang , Xiao-Jing Liu , Li Wang , Bing Liu , Xi-Hui Fan , Yi-Qing Guo

An interference experiment with entangled particles is theoretically analyzed, where one of the entangled pair (particle 1) goes through a multi-slit before being detected at a fixed detector. In addition, one introduces a mechanism for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Misba Afrin , Tabish Qureshi

We investigate how distinguishability of a "noise" particle degrades interference of the "signal" particle. The signal, represented by an equatorial state of a photonic qubit, is mixed with noise, represented by another photonic qubit, via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-16 Miroslav Gavenda , Lucie Celechovska , Jan Soubusta , Miloslav Dusek , Radim Filip

The evolution of light theories began with Isaac Newton's corpuscular model, which explained reflection and refraction but could not account for diffraction and interference. In contrast, Christiaan Huygens proposed a wave theory,…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-09-18 Arvind Khuntia , Raghunath Sahoo

Complementarity is usually considered as a phenomenon of microscopic systems. In this paper we report an experimental observation of complementarity in the correlated double-slit interference with a pseudothermal light source. The thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 De-Zhong Cao , Jun Xiong , Hua Tang , Lu-Fang Lin , Su-Heng Zhang , Kaige Wang

In present work we study informational measures for the problem of interference of quantum particles. We demonstrate that diffraction picture in the far field, which is given by probability density of particle momentum distribution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-31 Yu. I. Bogdanov , A. Yu. Bogdanov , S. A. Nuyanzin , A. K. Gavrichenko

The quantum Fisher information (FI), when applied to the estimation of the separation of two point sources, has been shown to be non-zero in cases where the coherence between the sources are known. Although it has been claimed that…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-16 Kevin Liang , S. A. Wadood , A. N. Vamivakas

From a quantum information perspective, verifying quantum coherence in a quantum experiment typically requires adjusting measurement settings or changing inputs. A paradigmatic example is that of a double-slit experiment, where observing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Fatemeh Bibak , Flavio Del Santo , Borivoje Dakić

Grangier, Roger and Aspect (GRA) performed a beam-splitter experiment to demonstrate the particle behaviour of light and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer experiment to demonstrate the wave behaviour of light. The distinguishing feature of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-10 P. N. Kaloyerou

We show that the two slit experiment in which a single quantum particle interferes with itself can be interpreted as a quantum fingerprinting protocol: the interference pattern exhibited by the particle contains information about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Serge Massar

The second-order temporal interference of classical and nonclassical light at an asymmetrical beam splitter is discussed based on two-photon interference in Feynman's path integral theory. The visibility of the second-order interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Jianbin Liu , Jingjing Wang , Zhuo Xu

In this article the propagation of pointlike event probabilities in space is considered. Double-Slit experiment is described in detail. New interpretation of Quantum Theory is formulated.

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-19 G. Quznetsov

The visibilities of second-order (single-photon) and fourth-order (two-photon) interference have been observed in a Young's double-slit experiment using light generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion and a photon-counting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. F. Abouraddy , M. B. Nasr , B. E. A. Saleh , A. V. Sergienko , M. C. Teich

Using the theory of imaging with partially coherent light, we derive general expressions for different kinds of interferometric setups like double slit, shift and mirror interference. We show that in all cases the interference patterns…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-01-17 Heinrich Stolz , Maria Dietl Rico Schwartz , Dirk Semkat

In classical optics, Young's double-slit experiment with colored coherent light gives rise to individual interference fringes for each light frequency, referring to single-photon interference. However, two-photon double-slit interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-11 De-Jian Zhang , Shuang Wu , Hong-Guo Li , Hai-Bo Wang , Jun Xiong , Kaige Wang

I argue that nonlocal decision of the outcomes at detection excludes any alternative theory to quantum mechanics: Not all that matters for the results of physical experiments is content in space-time, but all that is in space-time is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 Antoine Suarez

The scientific method relies on facts, established through repeated measurements and agreed upon universally, independently of who observed them. In quantum mechanics, the objectivity of observations is not so clear, most dramatically…

The delayed-choice quantum eraser has long been a subject of controversy, and has been looked at as being incomprehensible to having retro-causal effect in time. Here the delayed-choice quantum eraser is theoretically analyzed using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-28 Tabish Qureshi

In this paper we look at a particular realization of Popper's thought experiment with correlated quantum particles and argue that, from the point of view of a nonlinear quantum physics and contrary to the orthodox interpretation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 António Cardoso

Here we propose a pair of experiments to distinguish the recently proposed "slicing theory" of quantum measurement, which gives a transient many worlds picture, and decoherence. Since these two theories are essentially "opposites" in their…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Clifford Chafin