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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

We investigate wave-particle duality in a symmetric two-way interferometer with a which-way detector. We find that it is important to state wether the interfering object or the which-way detector is read out first. In case that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-11 Uwe Schilling , Joachim von Zanthier

For two-path interferometers, the which-path predictability $\mathcal{P}$ and the fringe visibility $\mathcal{V}$ are familiar quantities that are much used to talk about wave-particle duality in a quantitative way. We discuss several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Berthold-Georg Englert , Dagomir Kaszlikowski , Leong Chuan Kwek , Wei Hui Chee

The notion of wave-particle duality may be quantified by the inequality V^2+K^2 <=1, relating interference fringe visibility V and path knowledge K. With a single-photon interferometer in which polarization is used to label the paths, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter D. D. Schwindt , Paul G. Kwiat , Berthold-Georg Englert

We have experimentally demonstrated the interferometric complementarity, which relates the distinguishability $D$ quantifying the amount of which-way (WW) information to the fringe visibility $V$ characterizing the wave feature of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xinhua Peng , Xiwen Zhu , Ximing Fang , Mang Feng , Maili Liu , Kelin Gao

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

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

Quantum mechanical wave-particle duality is quantified in terms of a trade-off relation between the fringe visibility and the which-way distinguishability in an interference experiment. This relation is recently generalized by Banaszek et.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-20 J. Prabhu Tej , A. R. Usha Devi , H. S. Karthik , Sudha , A. K. Rajagopal

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

We investigate quantitatively the wave-particle duality in a general Mach-Zehnder interferometer setup with an asymmetric beam splitter. The asymmetric beam splitter introduces additional a priori which-path knowledge, which is different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Li Li , Nai-Le Liu , Sixia Yu

A quantum system (quanton) traverses an interferometer with $N$ equally probable paths and interacts with another quantum system (detector) that stores path information in a set of symmetric states. In this interferometric framework, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 L. F. Melo , O. Jiménez , L. Neves

We introduce a measure Q of the "quality" of a quantum which-way detector, which characterizes its intrinsic ability to extract which-way information in an asymmetric two-way interferometer. The "quality" Q allows one to separate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jesus Martinez-Linares , David Harmin

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

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 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

Wave-particle duality as one of the expression of Bohr complementarity is a significant concept in the field of quantum mechanics. Quantitative analysis of wave-particle duality aims to establish a complementary relation between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Zhaofang Bai , ShuanpingDu

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

We present an architecture to investigate wave-particle duality in $N$-path interferometers on a universal quantum computer involving as low as $2\log N$ qubits and develop a measurement scheme which allows the efficient extraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 Mirko Amico , Christoph Dittel

An interferometer - no matter how clever the design - cannot reveal both the wave and particle behavior of a quantum system. This fundamental idea has been captured by inequalities, so-called wave-particle duality relations (WPDRs), that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Patrick J. Coles

The Mach-Zehnder interferometric setup quantitatively characterizing the wave-particle duality implements in fact a joint measurement of two unsharp observables. We present a necessary and sufficient condition for such a pair of unsharp…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-12 Nai-Le Liu , Li Li , Sixia Yu , Zeng-Bing Chen
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