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A new wave-particle non-dualistic interpretation for the quantum formalism is presented by proving that the Schr\"odinger wave function is an `{\it instantaneous resonant spatial mode}' in which the quantum particle moves. The probabilities…

General Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 N Gurappa

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 quest to have both which-path knowledge and interference fringes in a double-slit experiment dates back to the inception of quantum mechanics (QM) and to the famous Einstein-Bohr debates. In this paper we propose and discuss an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 Stefan Ataman

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

Famous double-slit or double-path experiments, implemented in a Young's or Mach-Zehnder interferometer, have confirmed the dual nature of quantum matter, When a stream of photons, neutrons, atoms, or molecules, passes through two slits,…

We report a quantum eraser experiment which actually uses a Young double-slit to create interference. The experiment can be considered an optical analogy of an experiment proposed by Scully, Englert and Walther. One photon of an entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. P. Walborn , M. O. Terra Cunha , S. Padua , C. H. Monken

The double slit experiment provides a classic example of both interference and the effect of observation in quantum physics. When particles are sent individually through a pair of slits, a wave-like interference pattern develops, but no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-01 Joshua Kincaid , Kyle McLelland , Michael Zwolak

Interference is central to quantum physics and occurs when indistinguishable paths exist, like in a double-slit experiment. Replacing the two slits with two single atoms introduces optical non-linearities for which nontrivial interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Andreas Neuzner , Matthias Körber , Olivier Morin , Stephan Ritter , Gerhard Rempe

The interference of two independent single-photon pulses impinging on a beam splitter is analysed in a generalised time-resolved manner. Different aspects of the phenomenon are elaborated using different representations of the single-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Legero , T. Wilk , A. Kuhn , G. Rempe

We propose to search for new wave phenomena in the brain by using interference effects in analogy to the well-known double slit (Young) experiment. This method is able to extend the range of oscillation frequencies to much higher values…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Jerzy Szwed

Starting with a down to earth interpretation of quantum mechanics for a free particle, the disappearance and reappearance of interference in the 2 slit problem with a detector behind one are treated in detail. A partial interpretation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas O'Malley

We show that the two slit experiment in which a single quantum particle interferes with itself can be interpreted as a quantum fingerprinting protocol: the interference pattern exhibited by the particle contains information about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Serge Massar

One of the central principles of quantum mechanics is that if there are multiple paths that lead to the same event, and there is no way to distinguish between them, interference occurs. It is usually assumed that distinguishing information…

Sequences of alternating-sign time-dependent electric field pulses lead to coherent interference effects in Schwinger vacuum pair production, producing a Ramsey interferometer, an all-optical time-domain realization of the multiple-slit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-15 Eric Akkermans , Gerald V. Dunne

It is commonly assumed that the observation of an interference pattern is incompatible with any information about the path taken by a quantum particle. Here we show that, contrary to this assumption, the experimentally observable effects of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Holger F. Hofmann , Tomonori Matsushita , Shunichi Kuroki , Masataka Iinuma

We address the problem of interference using the Heisenberg picture and highlight some new aspects through the use of pre-selection, post-selection, weak measurements, and modular variables, We present a physical explanation for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jeff Tollaksen , Yakir Aharonov , Aharon Casher , Tirzah Kaufherr , Shmuel Nussinov

In the last few decades, interference has been extensively studied in both the quantum and classical fields, which reveals light volatility and is widely used for high-precision measurements. We have put forward the phenomenon in which the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-23 Keyu Pan , Xiumei Wang , Xizhou Shen , Haoyi Zhou , Xingping Zhou

It is shown that neither the wave picture nor the ordinary particle picture offers a satisfactory explanation of the double-slit experiment. The Physicists who have been successful in formulating theories in the Newtonian Paradigm with its…

General Physics · Physics 2010-06-25 Nalin de Silva

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

Feynman contended that the double-slit experiment contained the `only mystery' in quantum mechanics. The mystery was that electrons traverse the interferometer as waves, but are detected as particles. This note was motivated by the question…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-26 R. N. Sen