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This paper considers a theoretical model of the double-slit experiment with electrons whose paths are monitored. This monitoring, inspired by a recent text by Maudlin, is performed by the Coulomb scattering of the electron by a proton. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Frederick W. Strauch

Based on the novel view that a micro-entity could be considered as a particle associated with a field partaking of the energy of particle which are both described by deterministic causal equations of motion, we examine the success of our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Afshin Shafiee , Abouzar Massoudi , Mohammad Bahrami

The double slit interference experiment has been famously described by Richard Feynman as containing the "only mystery of quantum mechanics". The history of quantum mechanics is intimately linked with the discovery of the dual nature of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Anu Venugopalan

Based on a re-formulation of the classical explanation of quantum mechanical Gaussian dispersion (Groessing et al. 2010) as well as interference of two Gaussians (Groessing et al. 2012), we present a new and more practical way of their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Johannes Mesa Pascasio , Siegfried Fussy , Herbert Schwabl , Gerhard Groessing

In this paper we will be concerned with the explanation of the interference and diffraction patterns observed as an outcome of the Young double slit experiment. We will show that such explanation may be given {\it only} in terms of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 L. S. F. Olavo

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

The double-slit experiment is the most direct demonstration of interference between individual quantum objects. Since similar experiments with single particles and more slits produce interference fringes reducible to a combination of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Lee A. Rozema , Zhao Zhuo , Tomasz Paterek , Borivoje Dakić

The wave-particle duality is the main point of demarcation between quantum and classical physics, and is the quintessential mystery of quantum mechanics. Young's two-slit interference experiment is the arch prototype of actual and gedanken…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Rabinowitz

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

In this study, we solve analytically the Schrodinger equation for a macroscopic quantum oscillator as a central system coupled to two environmental micro-oscillating particles. Then, the double-slit interference patterns are investigated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 Hamid Reza Naeij , Afshin Shafiee

In a microscopic quantum system one cannot perform a simultaneous measurement of particle and wave properties. This, however, may not be true for macroscopic quantum systems. As a demonstration, we propose to measure the local macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Hrvoje Nikolic , Josip Atelj

We review some recent experimental progresses concerning Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information obtained in Quantum Optics Laboratory "Carlo Novero" at IENGF. More in details, after a short presentation of our polarization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Genovese , G. Brida , E. Cagliero , M. Gramegna , E. Predazzi

Young's double slit experiment has often been used to illustrate the concept of complementarity in quantum mechanics. If information can in principle be obtained about the path of the photon, then the visibility of the interference fringes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Hanzhen Lin , Yu-Kun Lu , Vitaly Fedoseev , Yoo Kyung Lee , Jiahao Lyu , Wolfgang Ketterle

Can a classical system as walking oil droplets on a vibrating surface simulate the single and double slit Quantum Mechanics experiment? A systematic investigation reveals that the answer is no, but that the classical system exhibits rich…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-09-02 Clive Ellegaard , Mogens T. Levinsen

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

Identical two-particle interferometry provides a scenario where interference and exchange effects manifest at once. We present a detailed calculation of the detection patterns in the two-particle two-slit experiment by extending Feynman's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Pedro Sancho

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

Quantum theory of interference phenomena does not take the diameter of the particle into account, since particles were much smaller than the width of the slits in early observations. In recent experiments with large molecules, the diameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mirjana Bozic , Dusan Arsenovic , Lepsa Vuskovic

The concept of wave-particle duality, which is a key element of quantum theory, has been remarkably found to manifest itself in several experimental realizations as in the famous double-slit experiment. In this specific case, a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-09 Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo , Askery Canabarro , Sérgio Azevedo

As per Einstein's design, particles are introduced into the double-slit experiment through a small hole in a plate which can either move up and down (and its momentum can be measured) or be stopped (and its position can be measured).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Arkady Bolotin