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If an unstable particle used in a two-path interference experiment decays before reaching a detector, which-way information becomes available which reduces the detected interference fringe visibility ${\cal V}$. Here we argue that even when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 D. E. Krause , E. Fischbach , Z. J. Rohrbach

It is commonly assumed that no accurate experimental information can be obtained on the path taken by a particle when quantum interference between the paths is observed. However, recent progress in the measurement and control of quantum…

We have studied the interference of degenerate quantum gases in a vertical optical lattice. The coherence of the atoms leads to an interference pattern when the atoms are released from the lattice. This has been shown for a Bose-Einstein…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Modugno , E. de Mirandes , F. Ferlaino , H. Ott , G. Roati , M. Inguscio

Interferometers capture a basic mystery of quantum mechanics: a single particle can exhibit wave behavior, yet that wave behavior disappears when one tries to determine the particle's path inside the interferometer. This idea has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Patrick J. Coles , Jędrzej Kaniewski , Stephanie Wehner

An experiment to test for relativistic frame dragging effects with quantum interferometry is proposed. The idea that the classical trajectories of the interferometer surround a spherical mass source whose angular momentum is perpendicular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-27 Y. Bonder , J. E. Herrera-Flores

We analyze an interferometric complementarity between one- and two-particle interference in the general case: $V_{i}^{2}+V_{12}^{2}\leq 1$ $(i=1$, $2)$, and further examine the relation among one-particle interference visibility $V_{i}$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xinhua Peng , Xiwen Zhu , Maili Liu , Kelin Gao

Doplicher, Fredenhagen, and Roberts (1994, 1995) proposed a simple model of a particle in quantum spacetime. We give a new formulation of the model and propose some small changes and additions which improve the physical interpretation. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jan Naudts , Maciej Kuna

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

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

A modified version of relational quantum mechanics is developed based on the three following ideas. An observer can develop an internally consistent description of the universe but it will, of necessity, differ in particulars from the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 B. K. Jennings

We show how interferometry can be used to characterise certain aspects of general quantum processes, in particular, the coherence of completely positive maps. We derive a measure of coherent fidelity, maximum interference visibility and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel K. L. Oi

Quantum coherence is one of the key features that fuels applications for which quantum mechanics exceeds the power of classical physics. This explains the considerable efforts that were undertaken to quantify coherence via quantum resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Michele Masini , Thomas Theurer , Martin B. Plenio

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…

Optical quantum interferometry represents the oldest example of quantum metrology and it is at the source of quantum technologies. The original squeezed state scheme is now a significant element of the last version of gravitational wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-25 Marco Genovese

Since the particles such as molecules, atoms and nuclei are composite particles, it is important to recognize that physics must be invariant for the composite particles and their constituent particles, this requirement is called particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Y. Cui

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

It is discussed an opportunity to introduce new class of quantum algorithms based on possibility to express amplitude of transition between two states of quantum system as sum of some function along all possible classical paths. Continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

These lecture notes cover the important developments in histories approach to quantum mechanics with overall content and emphasis somewhat different from other reviews and books on the subject.The idea of Houtappel, Van Dam and Wigner of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tulsi Dass

The basic concept of the two-state vector formalism, which is the time symmetric approach to quantum mechanics, is the backward evolving quantum state. However, due to the time asymmetry of the memory's arrow of time, the possible ways to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Lev Vaidman

A proposal for an experiment to look at some possibly novel aspects of quantum interference is presented, along with some Engineering applications that might result.

General Physics · Physics 2009-05-09 A. Y. Shiekh