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Wave-particle duality is a typical example of Bohr's complementarity principle that plays a significant role in quantum mechanics. Previous studies used the visibility of an interference pattern to quantify the wave property and used path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Yuan Yuan , Zhibo Hou , Yuan-Yuan Zhao , Han-Sen Zhong , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Bohr's principle of complementarity, in the context of a two-slit interference experiment, is understood as the quantitative measures of wave and particle natures following a duality relation ${\mathcal D}^2+{\mathcal V}^2 \le 1$. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Tabish Qureshi , Mohd Asad Siddiqui

The wave-particle duality, as one of the expressions of Bohr complementarity, is usually quantified by path predictability and the visibility of interference fringes. With the development of quantum resource theory, the quantitative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Y. T. Tsui , Sunho Kim

We derive a generalized wave-particle duality relation for arbitrary multipath quantum interference phenomena. Beyond the conventional notion of the wave nature of a quantum system, i.e., the interference fringe visibility, we introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Manabendra Nath Bera , Tabish Qureshi , Mohd Asad Siddiqui , Arun Kumar Pati

The complementary wave and particle character of quantum objects (or quantons) was pointed out by Niels Bohr. This wave-particle duality, in the context of the two-slit experiment, is now described not just as two extreme cases of wave and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-24 Tabish Qureshi

Wave-particle duality, a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, encapsulates the complementary relationship between the wave and particle behaviors of quantum systems. In this paper, we treat quantum coherence and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Zhiping Liu , Chengkai Zhu , Hua-Lei Yin , Xin Wang

Wave-particle duality and complementarity principle stand at the conceptual core of quantum theory in its orthodox Copenhagen interpretation. They imply that the wave behavior and particle behavior of quantum objects are mutually exclusive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhi-Yuan Li

Quantum coherence stemming from the superposition behaviour of a particle beyond the classical realm, serves as one of the most fundamental features in quantum mechanics. The wave-particle duality phenomenon, which shares the same origin,…

Wave-particle duality, an important and fundamental concept established upon pure quantum systems, is central to the complementarity principle in quantum mechanics. However, due to the environment effects or even the entanglement between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Xiangdong Zhang , Jiahao Huang , Min Zhuang , Xizhou Qin , Chaohong Lee

One of the milestones of quantum mechanics is Bohr's complementarity principle. It states that a single quantum can exhibit a particle-like \emph{or} a wave-like behaviour, but never both at the same time. These are mutually exclusive and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Auccaise , R. M. Serra , J. G. Filgueiras , R. S. Sarthour , I. S. Oliveira , L. C. Céleri

Recently, Bohr's complementarity principle was assessed in setups involving delayed choices. These works argued in favor of a reformulation of the aforementioned principle so as to account for situations in which a quantum system would…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 R. M. Angelo , A. D. Ribeiro

A textbook interpretation of quantum physics is that quantum objects can be described in a particle or a wave picture, depending on the operations and measurements performed. Beyond this widely held believe, we demonstrate in this…

One of the most puzzling consequences of interpreting quantum mechanics in terms of concepts borrowed from classical physics, is the so-called wave-particle duality. Usually, wave-particle duality is illustrated in terms of complementarity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Andrea Aiello

Wave-particle duality, intertwining two inherently contradictory properties of quantum systems, remains one of the most conceptually profound aspects of quantum mechanics. By using the concept of energy capacity, the ability of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Yan-Han Yang , Xin-Zhu Liu , Jun-Li Jiang , Hu Chen , Xue Yang , Xiao-Feng Qian , Shao-Ming Fei , Ming-Xing Luo

The concept of wave-particle duality holds significant importance in the field of quantum mechanics, as it elucidates the dual nature encompassing both wave-like and particle-like properties exhibited by microscopic particles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Kang-Kang Yang , Zhi-Xi Wang , Shao-Ming Fei

It is proposed that the paradox of wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics may be resolved using a physical picture analogous to magnetic domains. Within this picture, a quantum particle represents a coherent region of a quantum wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Kadin

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

Wave-particle duality relations express the fact that knowledge about the path a particle took suppresses information about its wave-like properties, in particular, its ability to generate an interference pattern. Recently, duality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Emilio Bagan , John Calsamiglia , Janos A. Bergou , Mark Hillery

The wave-particle duality demonstrates a competition relation between wave and particle behavior for a particle going through an interferometer. This duality can be formulated as an inequality, which upper bounds the sum of interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Kaifeng Bu , Lu Li , Junde Wu , Shao-Ming Fei

Quantum coherence quantifies the amount of superposition in a quantum system, and is the reason and resource behind several phenomena and technologies. It depends on the natural basis in which the quantum state of the system is expressed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Ingita Banerjee , Kornikar Sen , Chirag Srivastava , Ujjwal Sen
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