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Double-slit diffraction is a corner stone of quantum mechanics. It illustrates key features of quantum mechanics: interference and the particle-wave duality of matter. In 1965, Richard Feynman presented a thought experiment to show these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Roger Bach , Damian Pope , Sy-Hwang Liou , Herman Batelaan

A which-way measurement in Young's double-slit will destroy the interference pattern. Bohr claimed this complementarity between wave- and particle behaviour is enforced by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: distinguishing two positions a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Mir , J. S. Lundeen , M. W. Mitchell , A. M. Steinberg , J. L. Garretson , H. M. Wiseman

We critically analyze the problem of formulating duality between fringe visibility and which-way information, in multibeam interference experiments. We show that the traditional notion of visibility is incompatible with any intuitive idea…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Bimonte , R. Musto

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

Some recent works have introduced a quantum twist to the concept of complementarity, exemplified by a setup in which the which-way detector is in a superposition of being present and absent. It has been argued that such experiments allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 Tabish Qureshi

As per Einstein's design, particles are introduced into the double-slit experiment through a small hole in a plate which can either move up and down (and its momentum can be measured) or be stopped (and its position can be measured).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-22 Arkady Bolotin

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

Young's double slit experiment has often been used to illustrate the concept of complementarity in quantum mechanics. If information can in principle be obtained about the path of the photon, then the visibility of the interference fringes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Hanzhen Lin , Yu-Kun Lu , Vitaly Fedoseev , Yoo Kyung Lee , Jiahao Lyu , Wolfgang Ketterle

A model of the Einstein-Bohr double-slit experiment is formulated in a fully quantum theoretical setting. In this model, the state and dynamics of a movable wall that has the double slits in it, as well as the state of a particle incoming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 Shogo Tanimura

The double slit experiment is iconic and widely used in classrooms to demonstrate the fundamental mystery of quantum physics. The puzzling feature is that the probability of an electron arriving at the detector when both slits are open is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-01 Joseph Samuel

Summary. A modified version of the two-slit experiment is proposed in which the moveable detector/counter used to obtain the fringe distribution by counting single photons at different positions on the screen plane is replaced with a mirror…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Sampath

The quantum eraser variant of the double-slit experiment, and its 'delayed choice' sub-variant, are considered from the perspective of weak value and weak measurement theory (which is briefly reintroduced here). The interference fringes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Tom Rivlin

We present a scheme in which we investigate the two-slit experiment and the the principle of complementarity.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. S. Guerra

We report on the experimental findings of a thin-slit grid diffraction of a coherent light beam with sinusoidal amplitude. We create the sinusoidal amplitude by placing a thin-slit grid at the center of the dark fringes of an interference…

Optics · Physics 2008-05-05 Robert Buonpastore , Ernst Knoesel , Eduardo Flores

Complementarity is usually considered as a phenomenon of microscopic systems. In this paper we report an experimental observation of complementarity in the correlated double-slit interference with a pseudothermal light source. The thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 De-Zhong Cao , Jun Xiong , Hua Tang , Lu-Fang Lin , Su-Heng Zhang , Kaige Wang

We argue that the double-slit experiment can be understood much better by considering it as an experiment whereby one uses electrons to study the set-up rather than an experiment whereby we use a set-up to study the behaviour of electrons.…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Gerrit Coddens

We analyze an experiment in which a thin wire is scanned across the overlap of two in phase photon beams. We find that unless the wire induces the formation of an interference pattern, the complementarity inequality is violated. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Eduardo V. Flores

A modified double slit experiment of light was implemented. In the experiment, a spatial shape filter is used to manipulate the shape of cross section of laser beam. When this modified laser beam was shined on the double slit, the intensity…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Haisheng Liu

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

The phenomena of electron, neutron, atomic and molecular diffraction have been studied by many experiments, and these experiments are explained by some theoretical works. In this paper, we study electronic double-slit diffraction with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiang-Yao Wu , Bai-Jun Zhang , Xiao-Jing Liu , Li Wang , Bing Liu , Xi-Hui Fan , Yi-Qing Guo