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In this paper, we study the light double-slit diffraction experiment with quantum theory approach. Firstly, we calculate the light wave function in slits by quantum theory of photon. Secondly, we calculate the diffraction wave function with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-14 Xiang-Yao Wu , Hong Li , Bo-Jun Zhang , Ji Ma , Xiao-Jing Liu , Nuo Ba , He Dong , Si-Qi Zhang , Jing Wang , Yi-Heng Wu , Xin-Guo Yin

This paper proposes a numerical method using neural networks to solve the path integral problem in quantum mechanics for arbitrary potentials. The method is based on a radial basis function expansion of the interaction term that appears in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-20 Gabor Balassa

This paper treats absorption problems for the one-dimensional quantum walk determined by a 2 times 2 unitary matrix U on a state space {0,1,...,N} where N is finite or infinite by using a new path integral approach based on an orthonormal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Norio Konno , Takao Namiki , Takahiro Soshi , Aidan Sudbury

A neutron optical experiment is presented to investigate the paths taken by neutrons in a three-beam interferometer. In various beam-paths of the interferometer, the energy of the neutrons is partially shifted so that the faint traces are…

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…

The theory of time-dependent quantum transport addresses the question: How do electrons flow through a junction under the influence of an external perturbation as time goes by? In this paper, we invert this question and search for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 K. J. Pototzky , E. K. U. Gross

Quantum walks function as essential means to implement quantum simulators, allowing one to study complex and often directly inaccessible quantum processes in controllable systems. In this contribution, the notion of a driven Gaussian…

We have implemented a novel double-slit "which-way" experiment which raises interesting questions of interpretation. Coherent laser light is passed through a converging lens and then through a dual pinhole producing two beams crossing over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shahriar S. Afshar

A quantum model based on a Euler-Lagrange variational approach is proposed. In analogy with the classical transport, our approach maintain the description of the particle motion in terms of trajectories in a configuration space. Our method…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 O. Morandi

Quantum trajectory theory is the best mathematical set up to model continual observations of a quantum system and feedback based on the observed output. Inside this framework, we study how to enhance the squeezing of the fluorescence light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-21 A. Barchielli , M. gregoratti , M. Licciardo

Multi-photon propagation in connected structures - a quantum walk - offers the potential for simulating complex physical systems and provides a route to universal quantum computation. Increasing the complexity of quantum photonic networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-21 Hugo Defienne , Marco Barbieri , Ian A. Walmsley , Brian J. Smith , Sylvain Gigan

We use trajectory calculations to successfully explain two-photon "ghost" diffraction, a phenomenon previously explained via quantum mechanical entanglement. The diffraction patterns are accumulated one photon pair at a time. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bill Dalton

Quantum trajectory theory, developed largely in the quantum optics community to describe open quantum systems subjected to continuous monitoring, has applications in many areas of quantum physics. In this paper I present a simple model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Todd A. Brun

In this paper we focus our attention on a particle that follows a unidirectional quantum walk, an alternative version of the nowadays widespread discrete-time quantum walk on a line. Here the walker at each time step can either remain in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-01 Miquel Montero

The phenomena of electron, neutron, atomic and molecular diffraction have been studied by many experiments, and these experiments are explained by some theoretical works. In this paper, we study electronic double-slit diffraction with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiang-Yao Wu , Bai-Jun Zhang , Xiao-Jing Liu , Li Wang , Bing Liu , Xi-Hui Fan , Yi-Qing Guo

The use of an infinity of fluctuating paths of least time that are compatible with the quantum mechanics indeterminacy provides a new interpretation in geometrical optic of the interference pattern of Young's double slit experiment, which…

General Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Faycal Ben Adda

We investigate the conductance of a quantum wire with two embedded quantum dots using a T-matrix approach based on the Lippmann-Schwinger formalism. The quantum dots are represented by a quantum well with Gaussian shape and the wire is…

The semiclassical electron trajectory, the so-called quantum orbits, is employed to explain the terahertz wave generation (TWG) in dual-color strong field, and the feasibility of the theory is validated by the measurement. We find that TWG…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Yizhu Zhang , Kaixuan Zhang , Tian-Min Yan , Y. H. Jiang

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

Discrete-time quantum walk in one-dimension is studied from a path-integral perspective. This enables derivation of a closed-form expression for amplitudes corresponding to any coin-position basis of the state vector of the quantum walker…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Karthik S. Joshi , S. K. Srivatsa , R. Srikanth