Multipath Wave-Particle Duality in Classical Optics
Quantum Physics
2020-06-05 v2
Abstract
It is well known that in classical optics, the visibility of interference, in a two-beam light interference, is related to the optical coherence of the two beams. A wave-particle duality relation can be derived using this mutual coherence. The issue of wave-particle duality in classical optics is analyzed here, in the more general context of multipath interference. New definitions of interference visibility and path distinguishability have been introduced, which lead to a duality relation for multipath interference. The visibility is shown to be related to a new multi-point optical coherence function.
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@article{arxiv.2003.04585,
title = {Multipath Wave-Particle Duality in Classical Optics},
author = {Bibhash Paul and Sammi Kamal and Tabish Qureshi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.04585},
year = {2020}
}
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4 pages, published version