Momentum exchange in the electron double-slit experiment
Quantum Physics
2020-12-04 v1
Abstract
We provide support for the claim that momentum is conserved for individual events in the electron double slit experiment. The natural consequence is that a physical mechanism is responsible for this momentum exchange, but that even if the fundamental mechanism is known for electron crystal diffraction and the Kapitza-Dirac effect, it is unknown for electron diffraction from nano-fabricated double slits. Work towards a proposed explanation in terms of particle trajectories affected by a vacuum field is discussed. The contentious use of trajectories is discussed within the context of oil droplet analogues of double slit diffraction.
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@article{arxiv.2012.02141,
title = {Momentum exchange in the electron double-slit experiment},
author = {H. Batelaan and Eric Jones and Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang and Roger Bach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.02141},
year = {2020}
}
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15 pages, 11 figures