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We discuss complementarity and uncertainty in a gedanken Which-Way (Welcher-Weg) experiment in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Although a Welcher-Weg measurement can be performed with only a negligible amount of momentum change in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Ludwin , Y. Ben-Aryeh , A. Mann

Wilson's Numerical Renormalization Group (NRG) is so far the only nonperturbative technique that can reliably access low-energy properties of quantum impurity systems. We present a recent extension of the method, the DM-NRG, which yields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Hofstetter

A coherent account of the connections and contrasts between the principles of com- plementarity and uncertainty is developed starting from a survey of the various formalizations of these principles. The conceptual analysis is illustrated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Busch , Christopher R. Shilladay

Wave-particle duality relations are fundamental for quantum physics. Previous experimental studies of duality relations mainly focus on the quadratic relation $D^2+V^2\leq1$, based on symmetric beam interference, while a linear form of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Dong-Xu Chen , Yu Zhang , Jun-Long Zhao , Qi-Cheng Wu , Yu-Liang Fang , Chui-Ping Yang , Franco Nori

Complementarity was originally introduced as a qualitative concept for the discussion of properties of quantum mechanical objects that are classically incompatible. More recently, complementarity has become a \emph{quantitative} relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xinhua Peng , Xiwen Zhu , Dieter Suter , Jiangfeng Du , Maili Liu , Kelin Gao

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) was successfully employed to test several protocols and ideas in Quantum Information Science. In most of these implementations the existence of entanglement was ruled out. This fact introduced concerns and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 D. O. Soares-Pinto , R. Auccaise , J. Maziero , A. Gavini-Viana , R. M. Serra , L. C. Céleri

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

A recent experiment performed by S. S. Afshar et al. has been interpreted as a violation of Bohr's complementarity principle between interference visibility and which-path information in a two-path interferometer. We have reproduced this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Jacques , N. D. Lai , A. Dreau , D. Zheng , D. Chauvat , F. Treussart , P. Grangier , J-F Roch

We introduce a complete set of complementary quantities in bipartite, two-dimensional systems. Complementarity then relates the quantitative entanglement measure concurrence which is a bipartite property to the single-particle quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Jakob , Janos A. Bergou

Complementarity, the incomplete nature of a quantum measurement - a core concept in quantum mechanics - stems from the choice of the measurement apparatus. The notion of complementarity is closely related to Heisenberg's uncertainty…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Weisz , H. K. Choi , I. Sivan , M. Heiblum , Y. Gefen , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

We present a systematic framework to quantify the interplay between coherence and wave-particle duality in generic two-path interference systems. Our analysis reveals a closed-form duality ellipse (DE) equality, that rigorously unifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Pawan Khatiwada , Xiao-Feng Qian

We study the wave-particle duality in a general Mach-Zehnder interferometer with an asymmetric beam splitter from the viewpoint of quantum information theory. The correlations(including the classical correlation and the quantum correlation)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Yanjun Liu , Meiya Wang , Zhongcheng Xiang , Haibin Wu

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

In terms of operator, the two complementary quantities, the predictability and visibility, are reinvestigated in a two-way interferometer. One Hermitian operator and one non-Hermitian operator (composed of two Hermitian operators) are…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-25 Jie-Hui Huang , Shi-Yao Zhu

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

Three notions of complementarity - operational, probabilistic, and value complementarity - are reanalysed with respect to the question of joint measurements and compared with reference to some examples of canonically conjugate observables.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 P. Busch , P. J. Lahti

Wave-particle duality in multi-path interference is fraught with issues despite substantial progress in recent years. It was experimentally shown that in certain specific conditions, getting path information in a multi-path experiment can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Tabish Qureshi

Complementarity constitutes a central aspect of quantum theory. It manifests itself, for example, in a two-way interferometer, where the simultaneous observation of an interference pattern and the acquisition of which-way information are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Elisabeth Meusert , Uwe Schilling , Marc-Oliver Pleinert , Joachim von Zanthier

The quantitative formulation of Bohr's complementarity proposed by Greenberger and Yasin is applied to some physical situations for which analytical expressions are available. This includes a variety of conventional double-slit experiments,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Bramon , G. Garbarino , B. C. Hiesmayr

The issue of interference and which-way information is addressed in the context of 3-slit interference experiments. A new path distinguishability ${\mathcal D_Q}$ is introduced, based on Unambiguous Quantum State Discrimination (UQSD). An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-28 Mohd Asad Siddiqui , Tabish Qureshi