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Double-slits provide incoming photons with a choice. Those that survive the passage have chosen from two possible paths which interfere to distribute them in a wave-like manner. Such wave-particle duality continues to be challenged and…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-30 B. King , A. Di Piazza , C. H. Keitel

When subjected to monochromatic incident light a nanoparticle will emit light which then interferes with the incident beam. With sufficient contrast and sufficiently close to the particle this interference pattern may be recorded with a…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-26 T. G. Myers , H. Ribera , W. S. Bacsa

We report an interference experiment of spontaneous emission of light from two distant solid-state ensembles of atoms that are coherently excited by a short laser pulse. The ensembles are Erbium ions doped into two LiNbO3 crystals with…

Matter-wave interferometry has been largely studied in the last few years. Usually, the main problem in the analysis of the diffraction experiments is to establish the causes for the loss of coherence observed in the interference pattern.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paula I. Villar , Fernando C. Lombardo

In classical mechanics and electromagnetism, interference occurs when two or more waves overlap at the same point in spacetime. However, the advent of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and its remarkable success in describing light-matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Alan C. Santos , Celso J. Villas-Boas

We discuss the spontaneous emission from a coherently prepared and microwave driven doublet of potentially closely spaced excited states to a common ground level. Multiple interference mechanisms are identified which may lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Paspalakis , C. H. Keitel , P. L. Knight

A hallmark of wave-matter duality is the emergence of quantum-interference phenomena when an electronic transition follows different trajectories. Such interference results in asymmetric absorption lines such as Fano resonances, and gives…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Kai-Qiang Lin , Sebastian Bange , John M. Lupton

In the last few decades, interference has been extensively studied in both the quantum and classical fields, which reveals light volatility and is widely used for high-precision measurements. We have put forward the phenomenon in which the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 Keyu Pan , Xiumei Wang , Xizhou Shen , Haoyi Zhou , Xingping Zhou

Feynman described the double slit experiment as "a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to explain in any classical way and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics". The double slit experiment, performed one photon…

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

Wave-particle duality finds a natural application for electrons or light propagating in disordered media where coherent corrections to transport are given by two-wave interference. For scatterers with internal degrees of freedom, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Christian Miniatura , Cord A. Müller , Yin Lu , Guangquan Wang , Berthold-Georg Englert

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

This article presents an experiment that can be conducted today and that could provide a deeper understanding of the interaction between the wave and particle aspects of an atom. The wave-particle duality is often presented as mutually…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Michel Gondran , Alexandre Gondran

We test the validity of Feynman's idea that a two-slit experiment performed with classical objects (bullets) does not produce observable interference fringes on the detection screen because the Compton's wavelength of the bullets is so…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Marco Ornigotti , Andrea Aiello

Young's classic double-slit experiment demonstrates the reality of interference when waves and particles travel simultaneously along two different spatial paths. Here, we propose a double-slit experiment in momentum space, realized in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-18 I. P. Ivanov , D. Seipt , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche

We present an analytical and numerical investigation of double-slit diffraction under coherent illumination by three plane waves: one normally incident and two symmetrically angled at plus/minus theta. By imposing an edge-zero condition on…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 J. Sumaya-Martinez , MA Ortiz-Ferreyro , O. Rojas-Hernandez

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) media disclose the peculiarities of electrodynamics in the limit of infinite wavelength but non-zero frequency for experiments and applications. Theory suggests that wave interaction with obstacles and disturbances…

A double-slit experiment with entangled photons is theoretically analyzed. It is shown that, under suitable conditions, two entangled photons of wavelength $\lambda$ can behave like a \emph{biphoton} of wavelength $\lambda/2$. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 Ananya Paul , Tabish Qureshi

The energy and momentum densities of the fields of a free electron in a plane electromagnetic wave include interference terms that are the classical version of the ``dressing'' of the electron the arises in a quantum analysis. The…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirk T. McDonald , Konstantin Shmakov

The wave function of an atom passed through a diffraction grating acquires a regular space structure and the interaction of another particle with this atom can be thought of as scattering on a 'quantum grating' composed of a single atom.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 S. F. Zhang , B. Najjari , X. Ma , A. B. Voitkiv