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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

The double-slit experiment has become a classic thought experiment, for its clarity in expressing the central puzzle of quantum mechanics -- wave-particle complementarity. Such wave-particle duality continues to be challenged and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Wangmei Zha , Lijuan Ruan , Zebo Tang , Zhangbu Xu , Shuai Yang

We show that the first experiment with double-slits and twin photons detected in coincidence can be understood as a quantum eraser. The ``which path'' information is erased by transverse indistinguishability obtained by means of mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. H. Souto Ribeiro , S. Padua , C. H. Monken

It is well known that in a two-slit interference experiment, if the information, on which of the two paths the particle followed, is stored in a quantum path detector, the interference is destroyed. However, in a setup where this path…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-16 Naveed Ahmad Shah , Tabish Qureshi

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

The wave-particle duality is the main point of demarcation between quantum and classical physics, and is the quintessential mystery of quantum mechanics. Young's two-slit interference experiment is the arch prototype of actual and gedanken…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Rabinowitz

We probe the principle of complementarity by performing a double-slit experiment based on entangled photons created by spontaneous parametric down-conversion from a pump mode in a TEM01-mode. Our setup brings out the need for a careful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Ralf Menzel , Robert Marx , Dirk Puhlmann , Axel Heuer , Wolfgang P. Schleich

Quantum correlations of observables for two particle states have demonstrated the nonlocal character of the quantum mechanics. However nonlocality can be exhibited even for noncommuting observables of a single particle system. In this paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 Oziel de Araujo , Helder Alexander , Marcos Sampaio , Irismar da Paz

We propose a simple numerical experiment of two slits interference of particles. It disproves the popular belief that such an interference is incompatible with a knowledge which slit each particle came through or, more generally, ``quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir V. Kisil

This paper reports a "delayed choice quantum eraser" experiment proposed by Scully and Dr\"{u}hl in 1982. The experimental results demonstrated the possibility of simultaneously observing both particle-like and wave-like behavior of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Yoon-Ho Kim , R. Yu , S. P. Kulik , Y. H. Shih , Marlan . O. Scully

An interference experiment with entangled particles is theoretically analyzed, where one of the entangled pair (particle 1) goes through a multi-slit before being detected at a fixed detector. In addition, one introduces a mechanism for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Misba Afrin , Tabish Qureshi

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

Thought experiments based on the double-slit interferometer had a crucial role to develop ideas concerning the wave-particle duality and the Bohr's complementarity principle. Ideally, a slit with a sufficiently low mass recoils due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 Lucas S. Pollyceno , A. D. Ribeiro

Some modified two-slit interference experiments claim to demonstrate a violation of Bohr's complementarity principle. A typical such experiment is theoretically analyzed using wave-packet dynamics. The flaw in the analysis of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-25 Tabish Qureshi

Wave-particle duality is an inherent peculiarity of the quantum world. The double-slit experiment has been frequently used for understanding different aspects of this fundamental concept. The occurrence of interference rests on the lack of…

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

Recently, Danielson, Satishchandran, and Wald (DSW) have proposed a novel source of decoherence for uniformly accelerated charges and masses in spatial superposition in spacetimes containing a bifurcating Killing horizon. Such an effect can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Levy B. N. Batista , André G. S. Landulfo , Robert B. Mann , George E. A. Matsas

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

The Young double-slit interference pattern produced by quantum objects, like photons, that move through a double-slit is regarded, by the conventional Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, as the evidence of the wave-like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 Andrea Petrucci

Feynman contended that the double-slit experiment contained the `only mystery' in quantum mechanics. The mystery was that electrons traverse the interferometer as waves, but are detected as particles. This note was motivated by the question…

General Physics · Physics 2012-01-26 R. N. Sen