Double-slit interference pattern from single-slit screen and its gravitational analogues
Abstract
The double slit experiment (DSE) is known as an important cornerstone in the foundations of physical theories such as Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity. A large number of different variants of it were designed and performed over the years. We perform and discuss here a new verion with the somewhat unexpected results of obtaining interference pattern from single-slit screen. This outcome, which shows that the routes of the photons through the array were changed, leads one to discuss it, using the equivalence principle, in terms of geodesics mechanics. We show using either the Brill's version of the canonical formulation of general relativity or the linearized version of it that one may find corresponding and analogous situations in the framework of general relativity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0609021,
title = {Double-slit interference pattern from single-slit screen and its gravitational analogues},
author = {D. Bar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0609021},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
51 pages, 12 Figures five of them contain two subfigures and thus the number of figures is 17, 1 Table. Some minor changes introduced, especially, in the references