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Quantum mechanics does not provide a clear answer to the question: What was the past of a photon which went through an interferometer? Various welcher weg measurements, delayed-choice which-path experiments and weak-measurements of photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 Ariel Danan , Demitry Farfurnik , Shimshon Bar-Ad , Lev Vaidman

It is argued that Trauzettel et al. [Phys. Rev. B 75, 035305 (2007)] made some mistakes in their calculations regarding the photon-assisted transport in graphene that lead to uncoupled sidebands and emergence of step-like features in dG/dV…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 M. Ahsan Zeb

Bhati and Arvind [Phys. Lett. A, 127955 (2022)] recently argued that in a specially designed experiment the timing of photon detection events demonstrates photon presence at a location at which they are not present according to the weak…

We argue that, in the recent letter by A. Danan et al. [PRL 111, 240402 (2013), arXiv:1304.7469], if weak measurements are performed such that complete destructive interference is not disturbed, claims such as "some photons have been inside…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Hatim Salih

A nested interferometer experiment by Danan et al (2013) is discussed and some claims evaluated concerning the whereabouts of the photon, primarily in the context of time-symmetric interpretations of quantum theory including the Two-State…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 R. E. Kastner

In a recent paper, arXiv:1604.04596, Griffiths questioned - based on an informative consistent-histories (CH) argument - the counterfactuality, for one of the bit choices, of Salih et al.'s protocol for communicating without sending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-12 Hatim Salih

Interesting objections to conclusions of our experiment with nested interferometers raised by Salih in a recent Commentary are analysed and refuted.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 A. Danan , D. Farfurnik , S. Bar-Ad , L. Vaidman

A neutron optical experiment is presented to investigate the paths taken by neutrons in a three-beam interferometer. In various beam-paths of the interferometer, the energy of the neutrons is partially shifted so that the faint traces are…

We discuss complementarity and uncertainty in a gedanken Which-Way (Welcher-Weg) experiment in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Although a Welcher-Weg measurement can be performed with only a negligible amount of momentum change in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Ludwin , Y. Ben-Aryeh , A. Mann

While much of the technical analysis in the preceding Comment [1] is correct, in the end it confirms the conclusion reached in my previous work [2]: a consistent histories analysis provides no support for the claim of counterfactual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Robert B. Griffiths

We explore a counterfactual protocol for energy transfer. A modified version of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer dissociates a photon's position and energy into separate channels, resulting in a photoelectric effect in one channel without the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 A. Ludu , J. A. Morris , C. Rugina

We use a novel scanning electron Mach-Zehnder interferometer constructed in a conventional transmission electron microscope to perform inelastic interferometric imaging with free electrons. An electron wave function is prepared in two paths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Cameron W. Johnson , Amy E. Turner , F. Javier García de Abajo , Benjamin J. McMorran

We analyze Vaidman's three-path interferometer with weak path marking [Phys. Rev. A 87, 052104 (2013)] and find that common sense yields correct statements about the particle's path through the interferometer. This disagrees with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Berthold-Georg Englert , Kelvin Horia , Jibo Dai , Yink Loong Len , Hui Khoon Ng

Using spontaneous parametric down conversion and a 50:50 beam splitter, we generate coaxial polarization-entangled photon pairs, of which the two photons are far separated from each other. The photons are then sent one by one through one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 Xian-Min Jin , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Tao Yang , Youjin Deng

We consider weak values in the Feynman propagator framework, to gain a broader understanding of their interpretation in terms of path integrals. In particular, we examine the phenomenon of seemingly discontinuous paths that particles take…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Shushmi Chowdhury , Jörg B. Götte

By using the nonuniform discrete Fourier transform on the center positions of the symmetric intensity distribution of the output beam, we recover the vibration information of two mirrors, which is lost in the analysis of Danan \emph{et al.}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-12 Jie-Hui Huang , Li-Yun Hu , Xue-Xiang Xu , Cun-Jin Liu , Qin Guo , Hao-Liang Zhang , Shi-Yao Zhu

Kocsis et al. (Science, Reports 3 June 2011, p. 1170) state that the experimentally deduced average photon trajectories are identical to the particle trajectories of Bohm's quantum mechanics. No supporting evidence, however, was provided.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-22 Timothy M. Coffey , Robert E. Wyatt

Which-path information of a quantum particle in interferometers is the key to infer the past of quantum particle. It arises many extensive discussions including quantum complementarity and path-visibility relation. The basic of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Jinxian Guo , Qizhang Yuan , Yuan Wu , Weiping Zhang

Griffiths [Phys. Rev. A 94, 032115 (2016)] analyzed, in the framework of consistent histories interpretation, the controversy regarding the approach to the past of a quantum particle introduced by Vaidman [Phys. Rev. A 87, 052104 (2013)]. I…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Lev Vaidman

We propose an experiment that permits observation of the de Broglie two-photon wave packet behavior for a pair of photons, using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. It is based on the use of pulsed lasers to generate pairs of photons via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Luiz Carlos Ryff , P. H. Souto Ribeiro