A quantum field theoretic description of the delayed choice experiment
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Wheeler's delayed choice experiment, a well known manifestation of the complementarity principle, has proved somewhat difficult to physically interpret. We show that, restated in quantum field theoretic language, the experiment submits to a simple explanation: that wave- or particle-nature is imposed not at the slit plane but at the detector system. The intepretational difficulty conventionally encountered is due to the assumption of enforcement of complementarity at the former.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0106154,
title = {A quantum field theoretic description of the delayed choice experiment},
author = {R. Srikanth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0106154},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages; REVTeX; 3 new references added: Y.-H. Kim et al. (1995), D. Home (1994), J. Wheeler (1994); some changes to the Introduction; Version accepted in Current Science (2001)