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Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment investigates the indeterminacy of wave-particle duality and the role played by the measurement apparatus in quantum theory. Due to the inconsistency with classical physics, it has been generally believed…

A critical note on some of the existing proposals for performing the "delayed choice" experiment is placed. By abandoning the original idea and intention, some modern theoretical proposals and experimental evidence are simply incorrectly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 M. Dugic

We present a computer simulation model of Wheeler's delayed choice experiment that is a one-to-one copy of an experiment reported recently (V. Jacques {\sl et al.}, Science 315, 966 (2007)). The model is solely based on experimental facts,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Zhao , S. Yuan , H. De Raedt , K. Michielsen

It is argued that Wheeler's insightful idea of delayed choice experiments may be explored at a classical level, arising naturally from number-theoretical conjugacies always necessarily present in the equations of motion. For simple and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jason A. C. Gallas

Although it may seem The Delayed Choice experiments contradict causality and one could construct an experiment which could possibly affect the past, using Many World interpretation we prove it is not possible. We also find a mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Dominik Šafránek

The wave-particle duality dates back to Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect through quanta of light and de Broglie's hypothesis of matter waves. Quantum mechanics uses an abstract description for the behavior of physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Xiao-song Ma , Johannes Kofler , Anton Zeilinger

The transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, which uses retarded and advanced solutions of the Schrodinger equation and its complex conjugate, offers an original way to visualize and understand quantum processes. After a brief…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Louis Marchildon

Quantum systems exhibit particle-like or wave-like behaviour depending on the experimental apparatus they are confronted by. This wave-particle duality is at the heart of quantum mechanics, and is fully captured in Wheeler's famous delayed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-03 Alberto Peruzzo , Peter J. Shadbolt , Nicolas Brunner , Sandu Popescu , Jeremy L. O'Brien

Gedanken experiments are important conceptual tools in the quest to reconcile our classical intuition with quantum mechanics and nowadays are routinely performed in the laboratory. An important open question is the quantum behaviour of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 Radu Ionicioiu , Daniel R. Terno

A PhD student is locked inside a box, imitating a quantum system by mimicking the measurement statistics of any viable observable nominated by external observers. Inside a second box lies a genuine quantum system. Either box can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu , Pawel Kurzynski , Su-Yong Lee , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Quantum and classical models for delayed choice entanglement swapping by postselection of measurements are discussed.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Karl Svozil

Wheeler has strikingly illustrated the wave-particle duality by the delayed-choice thought experiment, in which the configuration of a 2-path interferometer is chosen after a single-photon light-pulsed has entered it. We present a…

The conventional explanation of delayed-choice experiments appears to violate our causal intuition at the quantum level. I reanalyze these experiments using time-reversed and time-symmetric formulations of quantum mechanics. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Michael B. Heaney

The attractive feature of the Everett approach is its admirable spirit of approaching the quantum puzzle with a Zen-like "beginner's mind" in order to try to envision what the pure formalism might be saying about quantum reality, even if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-08 R. E. Kastner , John G. Cramer

The puzzling properties of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality, entanglement and superposition, were dissected experimentally at past decades. However, hidden-variable (HV) models, based on three classical assumptions of wave-particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Tao Xin , Hang Li , Bi-Xue Wang , Gui-Lu Long

Gedankenexperiments have consistently played a major role in the development of quantum theory. A paradigmatic example is Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment, a wave-particle duality test that cannot be fully understood using only classical…

Many delayed-choice experiments based on Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI) have been thought and made to address the fundamental problem of wave-particle duality. Conventional wisdoms long hold that by inserting or removing the second beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Zhi-Yuan Li

We study for a composite quantum system with a quantum Turing architecture the temporal non-locality of quantum mechanics by using the temporal Bell inequality, which will be derived for a discretized network dynamics by identifying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Ilki Kim , Guenter Mahler

The Delayed-Choice Quantum Eraser experiment is commonly interpreted as implying that in quantum mechanics a choice made at one time can influence an earlier event. We here suggest an extension of the experiment that results in a paradox…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Colm Bracken , Jonte R. Hance , Sabine Hossenfelder

The delayed choice experiments of the type introduced by Wheeler and extended by Englert, Scully, S\"ussmann and Walther [ESSW], and others, have formed a rich area for investigating the puzzling behaviour of particles undergoing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 B. J. Hiley , R. E. Callaghan