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In a paper from 2006, Couder and Fort [1] describe a version of the famous double slit experiment performed with drops bouncing on a vibrated fluid surface, where interference in the particle statistics is found even though it is possible…

The double slit interference experiment has been famously described by Richard Feynman as containing the "only mystery of quantum mechanics". The history of quantum mechanics is intimately linked with the discovery of the dual nature of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Anu Venugopalan

In quantum mechanics, a long-standing question remains: How does a single photon traverse double slits? One intuitive picture suggests that the photon passes through only one slit, while its wavefunction splits into an ``empty" wave and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Jian-Peng Dou , Feng Lu , Hao Tang , Xiao-Wen Shang , Xian-Min Jin

We show that it is possible to generate a novel single-photon fringe pattern by using two spatially separated identical bi-photon sources. The fringes are similar to the ones observed in a Michelson interferometer and possess certain…

Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) media disclose the peculiarities of electrodynamics in the limit of infinite wavelength but non-zero frequency for experiments and applications. Theory suggests that wave interaction with obstacles and disturbances…

Linear-optics gates, the enabling tool of photonic quantum information processing, depend on indistinguishable photons, as they harness quantum interference to achieve nonlinear operations. Traditionally, meeting this criterion involves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Ziv Aqua , Barak Dayan

The time-energy entanglement of down-converted photon pairs is particularly difficult to characterize because direct measurements of photon arrival times are limited by the temporal resolution of photon detection. Here, we explore an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 Changliang Ren , Holger F. Hofmann

In this article we present an analytic solution of the famous problem of diffraction and interference of electrons through one and two slits (for simplicity, only the one-dimensional case is considered). In addition to exact formulas, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-30 Mathieu Beau

Multi-photon interference reveals strictly non-classical phenomena. Its applications range from fundamental tests of quantum mechanics to photonic quantum information processing, where a significant fraction of key experiments achieved so…

We describe a new and distinctive interferometry in which a probe particle scatters off a superposition of locations of a single free target particle. In one dimension, probe particles incident on superposed locations of a single "mirror"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Daniel Rohrlich , Yakov Neiman , Yonathan Japha , Ron Folman

Quantum theory predicts that two indistinguishable photons incident on a beam-splitter interferometer stick together as they exit the device (the pair emerges randomly from one port or the other). We use a special photon-number-resolving…

Inherent loss is always to be avoided in generating single photons or biphotons, but interestingly it provides opportunities for manipulating the photon wave packet. In this paper we show how inherent loss in parametric down-conversion can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Wei-Ming Su , Ravikumar Chinnarasu , Chang-Hau Kuo , Chih-Sung Chuu

We present a general theory to describe two-photon interference, including a formal description of few photon intereference in terms of single-photon amplitudes. With this formalism, it is possible to describe both frequency entangled and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. G. Lapaire , J. E. Sipe

Based on the novel view that a micro-entity could be considered as a particle associated with a field partaking of the energy of particle which are both described by deterministic causal equations of motion, we examine the success of our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Afshin Shafiee , Abouzar Massoudi , Mohammad Bahrami

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

Diffraction patterns of electrons are believed to resemble those of electromagnetic waves (EMW). I performed a series of experiments invoked to show that the periodicity of peaks in the diffraction diagram of electrons is concerned with the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Victor V. Demjanov

In this paper is presented a simple alternative model of the dual nature of light, based on the deliberate inversion of the original statement from P. A. M. Dirac: "Each photon interferes only with itself. Interference between different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 F. Henault

We analyze a double-slit experiment when the interfering particle is "mesoscopic" and one endeavors to obtain Welcher Weg information by shining light on it. We derive a compact expression for the visibility of the interference pattern:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Facchi , A. Mariano , S. Pascazio

Classical wisdom of wave-particle duality says that it is impossible to observe simultaneously the wave and particle nature of microscopic object. Mathematically the principle requests that the interference visibility V and which-path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Fenghua Qi , Zhiyuan Wang , Weiwang Xu , Xue-Wen Chen , Zhi-Yuan Li

We study distinguishability of photons in multiphoton interference on a multiport when fast detectors, capable of precise time resolution, are employed. Such a setup was previously suggested for experimental realization of boson sampling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 V. S. Shchesnovich , M. E. O. Bezerra