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We show that a thermal light random in transverse direction can perform subwavelength double slit interference in a joint-intensity measurement. This is the classical version of quantum lithography, and it can be explained with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kaige Wang , De-zhong Cao

We report on the experimental implementation of a polarimeter based on a scheme known to be optimal for obtaining the polarization vector of ensembles of spin-1/2 quantum systems, and the alignment procedure for this polarimeter is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Ling , Soh Kee Pang , Antia Lamas-Linares , Christian Kurtsiefer

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 experimentally realize a nonlinear quantum protocol on single-photon qubits with linear optical elements and appropriate measurements. The quantum nonlinearity is induced by post-selecting the polarization qubit based on a measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Gaoyan Zhu , Orsolya Kalman , Kunkun Wang , Lei Xiao , Dengke Qu , Xiang Zhan , Zhihao Bian , Tamas Kiss , Peng Xue

We construct a quantum bit commitment scheme using a double-slit setup similar to Wheeler's delayed choice experiment. Bob sends photons toward the double-slit, and Alice commits by determining either the slit from which each photon emerges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Chi-Yee Cheung

We analyze an experiment in which a thin wire is scanned across the overlap of two in phase photon beams. We find that unless the wire induces the formation of an interference pattern, the complementarity inequality is violated. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Eduardo V. Flores

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

A new wave-particle non-dualistic interpretation for the quantum formalism is presented by proving that the Schr\"odinger wave function is an `{\it instantaneous resonant spatial mode}' in which the quantum particle moves. The probabilities…

General Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 N Gurappa

One might expect that a quantum undecayed unstable particle (QUUP) should behave in the same manner as an identical, albeit stable, particle, but it turns out that this is not always true. We show explicitly that using QUUPs in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 D. E. Krause , E. Fischbach , Z. J. Rohrbach

The interference of two single photons impinging on a beam splitter is measured in a time-resolved manner. Using long photons of different frequencies emitted from an atom-cavity system, a quantum beat with a visibility close to 100% is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Legero , Tatjana Wilk , Markus Hennrich , Gerhard Rempe , Axel Kuhn

We analyze the strength of polarization correlations between two light beams that can be achieved in the semiclassical regime using statistical mixtures of coherent states and binary on/off detectors. Under certain symmetry assumptions, the…

Systematic description of a spin one-half system endowed with magnetic moment or any other two-level system (qubit) interacting with the quantized electromagnetic field is developed. This description exploits a close analogy between a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Tomasz Sowinski

We address the problem of interference using the Heisenberg picture and highlight some new aspects through the use of pre-selection, post-selection, weak measurements, and modular variables, We present a physical explanation for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jeff Tollaksen , Yakir Aharonov , Aharon Casher , Tirzah Kaufherr , Shmuel Nussinov

The compatibility of standard and Bohmian quantum mechanics has recently been challenged in the context of two-particle interference, both from a theoretical and an experimental point of view. We analyze different setups proposed and derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 E. Guay , L. Marchildon

We theoretically and experimentally investigate conditional enhancement of overall coherence of quantum states by probabilistic quantum operations that apply to the input state a quantum filter diagonal in the basis of incoherent states. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Robert Stárek , Michal Mičuda , Michal Kolář , Radim Filip , Jaromír Fiurášek

Two well-known conceptual conundrums of quantum mechanics referred to as instantaneous action-at-a-distance and inseparable wave-particle character are tackled using the principle of least action. Since any measurement is an action, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-03 Arto Annila , Tarja Kallio-Tamminen

With the advancement of non-classical light sources such as single-photon and entangled-photon sources, innovative microscopy based on the quantum principles has been proposed over traditional microscopy. This paper introduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

Scattering or tunneling of an electron at a potential barrier is a fundamental quantum effect. Electron-electron interactions often affect the scattering, and understanding of the interaction effect is crucial in detection of various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Sungguen Ryu , H. -S. Sim

The traditional analysis of the basic version of the double-slit experiment leads to the conclusion that wave-particle duality is a fundamental fact of nature. However, such a conclusion means to imply that we are not only required to have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-09 Arkady Bolotin

In this work we suggest an original, realistic and simple, form of the experiment of interference of single photon at beam splitter. Here quantum entanglement (Schrodinger cat effect) between photon and photon trajectories detector (which…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Vladan Pankovic