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We consider the scattering of particles by an obstacle which tunnels coherently between two positions. We show that the obstacle mimics two classical scatterers at fixed positions when the kinetic energy epsilon of the incident particles is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Schomerus , Y. Noat , J. Dalibard , C. W. J. Beenakker

An Ising-type classical statistical model is shown to describe quantum fermions. For a suitable time-evolution law for the probability distribution of the Ising-spins our model describes a quantum field theory for Dirac spinors in external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-18 C. Wetterich

Quantum interference lies at the heart of several quantum computational speed-ups and provides a striking example of a phenomenon with no classical counterpart. An intriguing feature of quantum interference arises in a three slit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Ciarán M. Lee , John H. Selby

The double-slit experiment is one of the quintessential quantum experiments. However, it tends to be overlooked that a theoretical account of this experiment requires the specification of the joint position and time distribution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Siddhant Das , Dirk-André Deckert , Leopold Kellers , Simon Krekels , Ward Struyve

A geometric approach to quantum mechanics with unitary evolution and non-unitary collapse processes is developed. In this approach the Schrodinger evolution of a quantum system is a geodesic motion on the space of states of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexey A. Kryukov

The ability of matter to be superposed at two different locations while being intrinsically connected by a quantum phase is among the most counterintuitive predictions of quantum physics. While such superpositions have been created for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 D. Kienzler , C. Flühmann , V. Negnevitsky , H. -Y. Lo , M. Marinelli , D. Nadlinger , J. P. Home

We present the standard double slit experiment with non-relativistic particles in the Heisenberg Picture of quantum mechanics. Our motivation is threefold. First and foremost, and contrary to some claims in the literature, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Vlatko Vedral

I present a microscopic framework in which quantum phenomena emerge from particle-particle interactions governed by Newton's second law of motion. Within this approach, stationary states and quantized energy spectra arise naturally for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Dennis M. Heim

Quantum stochastic differential equations have been used to describe the dynamics of an atom interacting with the electromagnetic field via absorption/emission processes. Here, by using the full quantum stochastic Schroedinger equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alberto Barchielli , Giancarlo Lupieri

Single-slit and two-slit interferometer measurements of electrons are analyzed within the realistic model of particle propagation. In a step by step procedure we show that all current models of interference are essentially non-local and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Hofer

Young's double-slit experiment requires two waves produced simultaneously at two different points in space. In quantum mechanics the waves correspond to a single quantum object, even as complex as a big molecule. An interference is present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Marek Czachor

Based on the double-slit experiment of electrons, we suggest a proposal of thought experiment to distinguish between the Bohmian Interpretation (BI) and the Standard Quantum Mechanics (SQM). We mainly focus on the discussion of the meaning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-04 Ke-Xia Jiang , San-Min Ke

We investigate the effects of spin-momentum locking on the interference and diffraction patterns due to a double- or single-slit in an electronic \emph{Gedankenexperiment}. We show that the inclusion of the spin-degree-of-freedom, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-15 D. Bercioux , T. van den Berg , D. Ferraro , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

We present a fully local treatment of the double slit experiment in the formalism of quantum field theory. Our exposition is predominantly pedagogical in nature and exemplifies the fact that there is an entirely local description of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-26 Vlatko Vedral

Some modified two-slit interference experiments were carried out showing an apparent paradox in wave-particle duality. In a typical such experiment, the screen, where the interference pattern is supposed to be formed, is replaced by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 Tabish Qureshi

We study coherent superpositions of clockwise and anti-clockwise rotating intermediate complexes with overlapping resonances formed in bimolecular chemical reactions. Disintegration of such complexes represents an analog of famous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-30 L. Benet , L. T. Chadderton , S. Yu. Kun , Wang Qi

Solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation by spanning the wave function is a complete basis is a common practice is many-body interacting systems. We shall study the case of a two-dimensional quantum system composed by two interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-12 J. Batle

The double slit experiment (DSE) is known as an important cornerstone in the foundations of physical theories such as Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity. A large number of different variants of it were designed and performed over the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Bar

We discuss the roles of the macroscopic limit and of different system-environment interactions in the quantum-classical transition for a chaotic system. We consider the kicked harmonic oscillator subject to reservoirs that correspond in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. R. Carvalho , R. L. de Matos Filho , L. Davidovich

In this article, we transform the previously-derived microscopic rotational-model Schrodinger equation into a form suitable for describing oscillations-coupled-to-intrinsic motion in spherical nuclei. The resulting equation is decomposed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-02-26 Parviz Gulshani