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We report on a delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment based on a two-photon imaging scheme using entangled photon pairs. After the detection of a photon which passed through a double-slit, a random delayed choice is made to erase or not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-14 Giuliano Scarcelli , Yu Zhou , Yanhua Shih

In this paper, we have estimated the temperature dependent path predictability for an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The increment of path predictability can directly be associated with stronger decoherence process. We have also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Sisir Roy

Often cited dictums in Quantum Mechanics include "observation disturbance causes loss of interference" and "ignorance is interference". In this paper we propose and describe a series of experiments with modified Mach-Zehnder interferometers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-24 Stefan Ataman

We propose a quantum circuit that emulates a delayed-choice quantum eraser via bipartite entanglement with the extension that the degree of entanglement between the two paired quantons is adjustable. This provides a broader setting to test…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-09 Dah-Wei Chiou , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu

Wave-particle duality constitutes one of the most intriguing features in quantum physics. A well-known gedanken experiment that provides evidence for this is the Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer.…

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,…

In this article, we present a detailed analysis of two famous delayed choice experiments: Wheeler's classic gedanken-experiment and the delayed quantum eraser. Our analysis shows that the outcomes of both experiments can be fully explained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Marijn Waaijer , Jan van Neerven

The counterintuitive features of quantum physics challenge many common-sense assumptions. In an interferometric quantum eraser experiment, one can actively choose whether or not to erase which-path information, a particle feature, of one…

We show that the first experiment with double-slits and twin photons detected in coincidence can be understood as a quantum eraser. The ``which path'' information is erased by transverse indistinguishability obtained by means of mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. H. Souto Ribeiro , S. Padua , C. H. Monken

The delayed-choice thought experiment proposed by Wheeler has been demonstrated over the last several decades for the wave-particle duality of a single photon. The delayed-choice quantum eraser proposed by Scully and Druhl has also been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-14 B. S. Ham

This paper shows how one can construe the experimental results in a way that does not involve effects that precede their causes.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 William Sellers

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

We propose an electronic quantum eraser in which the electrons are injected into a mesoscopic conductor at the quantum Hall regime. The conductor is composed of a two-path interferometer which is an electronic analogue of the optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Kicheon Kang

Wave-particle duality has become one of the flagships of quantum mechanics. This counter-intuitive concept is highlighted in a delayed choice experiment, where the experimental setup that reveals either the particle or wave nature of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Rafael Chaves , Gabriela Barreto Lemos , Jacques Pienaar

We present a novel quantum circuit that genuinely implements the Scully-Dr\"uhl-type delayed-choice quantum eraser, where the two recorders of the which-way information directly interact with the signal qubit and remain spatially separated.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Bo-Hung Chen , Dah-Wei Chiou , Hsiu-Chuan Hsu

In this article, we survey some controversial problems concerning the idea of erasing Which Way information proposed in recent years. A statistical examination of these proposals suggests that whenever the Bayesian rule is taken into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-20 Mohammad Bahrami , Afshin Shafiee

We have implemented an optical quantum eraser with the aim of studying this phenomenon in the context of state discrimination. An interfering single photon is entangled with another one serving as a which-path marker. As a consequence, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L Neves , G Lima , J Aguirre , F A Torres-Ruiz , C Saavedra , A Delgado

We present an analysis of a double Mach-Zehnder interferometer in which an ensemble of identical pre- and postselected particles leave a weak trace. A knowledge of the weak value partially destroys the quantum interference. The results,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 Zheng-Hong Li , M. Al-Amri , M. Suhail Zubairy

In this paper we will first look at a particular quantum eraser setup to show that this type of experiments can be understood in an intuitive manner if we are willing to take a complex nonlinear approach, without the need to invoke Niels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 António Cardoso , João L. Cordovil , José R. Croca

There is a very common fallacy, here called the separation fallacy, that is involved in the interpretation of quantum experiments involving a certain type of separation such as the: double-slit experiments, which-way interferometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 David Ellerman