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Bohr's principle of complementarity lies at the central place of quantum mechanics, according to which the light is chosen to behave as a wave or particles, depending on some exclusive detecting devices. Later, intermediate cases are found,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Jian-Shun Tang , Yu-Long Li , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We show a wave-particle duality of light and its complementary relation in the context of the intensity interference measured by intensity correlation measurement, especially for the case of the second-order intensity interference observed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Rikizo Ikuta

We propose the notion of quantum coherence for superpositions over states which are not necessarily mutually orthogonal. This anticipatedly leads to a resource theory of non-orthogonal coherence. We characterize free states and free…

Quantum entanglement between an interfering particle and a detector for acquiring the which-path information plays a central role for enforcing Bohr's complementarity principle. However, the quantitative relation between this entanglement…

The concepts of geometric phase and wave-particle duality are interlinked to several fundamental phenomena in quantum physics, but their mutual relationship still forms an uncharted open problem. Here we address this question by studying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Elvis Pillinen , Atri Halder , Ari T. Friberg , Tero Setälä , Andreas Norrman

Wave-particle duality epitomizes the counterintuitive character of quantum physics. A striking illustration is the quantum delay-choice experiment, which is based on Wheeler's classic delayed-choice gedanken experiment, but with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Kai Wang , Qian Xu , Shining Zhu , Xiao-song Ma

It is well known that in a two-slit interference experiment, acquiring which-path information about the particle, leads to a degrading of the interference. It is argued that path-information has a meaning only when one can umabiguously tell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Keerthy K. Menon , Tabish Qureshi

Interference of more and more massive objects provides a spectacular confirmation of quantum theory. It is usually regarded as support for "wave-particle duality" and in an extension of this duality even as support for "complementarity". We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Lukas Mairhofer , Oliver Passon

For a particle travelling through an interferometer, the trade-off between the available which-way information and the interference visibility provides a lucid manifestation of the quantum mechanical wave-particle duality. Here we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Konrad Banaszek , Pawel Horodecki , Michal Karpinski , Czeslaw Radzewicz

Wave-particle duality and entanglement are two fundamental characteristics of quantum mechanics. All previous works on experimental investigations in wave{particle properties of single photons (or single particles in general) show that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Kai Wang , Daniel R. Terno , Caslav Brukner , Shining Zhu , Xiao-Song Ma

Visibility $V$ and distinguishability $D$ quantify wave-ray duality: $V^2 + D^2 \le 1$. We join them to polarization $P$ via the Polarization Coherence Theorem, a tight equality: $P^2 = V^2 + D^2$.

Optics · Physics 2018-01-01 J. H. Eberly , X. -F. Qian , A. N. Vamivakas

Bohr's Complementarity Principle is a core concept of quantum mechanics. In this article, an updated complementarity relation for the wave and ondulatory aspects of a quantum system is presented and discussed. Two interferometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Celia Álvarez Álvarez , Mariamo Mussa Juane

We study wave-particle duality by exploring for the first time effects of a quantum object's source. A single photon emitted from a pair of nonlocally entangled two-level atoms is specifically analyzed. Surprisingly, duality is found to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 X. -F. Qian , G. S. Agarwal

Wave--particle duality is a cornerstone of quantum mechanics, traditionally formulated under definite causal order. We investigate how complementarity is modified when the temporal order of operations is coherently superposed, as in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Mohd Asad Siddiqui , Md Qutubuddin , Tabish Qureshi

Recently, the basic concept of quantum coherence (or superposition) has gained a lot of renewed attention, after Baumgratz et al. [PRL 113:140401 (2014)], following \AA{}berg [arXiv:quant-ph/0612146], have proposed a resource theoretic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Tanmoy Biswas , María García Díaz , Andreas Winter

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

We propose a method called `coherence swapping' which enables us to create superposition of a particle in two distinct paths, which is fed with initially incoherent, independent radiations. This phenomenon is also present for the charged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arun K. Pati , Marek Zukowski

Symmetry plays a central role in many areas of modern physics. Here we show that it also underpins the dual particle and wave nature of quantum systems. We begin by noting that a classical point particle breaks translational symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Joan A. Vaccaro

Quantum states and measurements exhibit wave-like --- continuous, or particle-like --- discrete, character. Hybrid discrete-continuous photonic systems are key to investigating fundamental quantum phenomena, generating superpositions of…

Interferometric complementarity is known to be one of the most nonclassical manifestations of the quantum formalism. It is commonly known as wave-particle duality and has been studied presently from the perspective of quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-13 Gautam Sharma , Mohd Asad Siddiqui , Shiladitya Mal , Sk Sazim , Aditi Sen De