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    In modern physics, the double-slit experiment demonstrates that light and matter can satisfy the seemingly incongruous classical definitions for both waves...
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  • interference experiment, also called Young's double-slit interferometer, was the original version of the modern double-slit experiment, performed at...
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    and 1984. These experiments are attempts to decide whether light somehow "senses" the experimental apparatus in the double-slit experiment it travels through...
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  • eraser experiment is a variation of Thomas Young's classic double-slit experiment. It establishes that when action is taken to determine which of 2 slits a...
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  • The double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can be modelled by both waves and particles. Slit experiment may also refer to: Young's...
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  • classical fields are sufficient. Classical optical experiments like Young's double slit experiment and Mach-Zehnder interferometry are characterized only...
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  • quantum non-equilibrium to quantum equilibrium (ρ → |ψ|2). The double-slit experiment is an illustration of wave–particle duality. In it, a beam of particles...
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    described above. For example, in the classic double-slit experiment, electrons are fired randomly at two slits, and the probability distribution of detecting...
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  • Delayed-choice quantum eraser (category Physics experiments)
    well-known double-slit experiment in quantum mechanics, as well as the consequences of quantum entanglement. The delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment investigates...
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  • Furthermore, versions of the experiment that include detectors at the slits find that each detected photon passes through one slit (as would a classical particle)...
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  • this experiment. Despite the "observer effect" in the double-slit experiment being caused by the presence of an electronic detector, the experiment's results...
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  • computed through such distributions. Consider a double slit experiment with photons. The two waves exiting each slit can be written as: f 1 ( x ) = d N / d t...
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  • experiment is a variation of the double-slit experiment in quantum mechanics, devised and carried out by Shahriar Afshar in 2004. In the experiment,...
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    interactions between multitudes of photons) was implied by a low-intensity double-slit experiment first performed by G. I. Taylor in 1909. The quantum approach has...
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    did not fully resolve all observations such as the low-intensity double-slit experiment first performed by G. I. Taylor in 1909. It was not until the early...
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  • from the source. In the double-slit experiment, the two slits are illuminated by a single light beam. If the width of the slits is small enough (less than...
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  • Nebraska set out to repeat the Couder and Fort's bouncing-droplet double-slit experiment. Having their experimental setups perfected, none of the teams saw...
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  • elegant example of wave-particle duality is the double-slit experiment. In the double-slit experiment, as originally performed by Thomas Young in 1803...
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  • a superposition of both states. The interference fringes in the double-slit experiment provide another example of the superposition principle. Paul Dirac...
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  • interference patterns. For example, visibility of the double slit experiment pattern requires that both slits be illuminated by a coherent wave as illustrated...
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    interference, which is often illustrated with the double-slit experiment. In the basic version of this experiment, a coherent light source, such as a laser beam...
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  • theoretically analyzed Popper's experiment and predicted that narrowing slit A would lead to momentum spread increasing at slit B. Kripps also argued that...
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  • Double-slit experiment Eddington experiment Eötvös experiment Fizeau experiment Foucault pendulum Franck–Hertz experiment Geiger–Marsden experiment Gravity...
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  • quasiparticles. The electron double slit experiment is a textbook demonstration of wave-particle duality. A modern version of the experiment is shown schematically...
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    destructive interference used above for the double-slit experiment applies as well to the display of a single slit of light intercepted on a screen. The main...
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    its manifestation is wave interference such as that seen in the double-slit experiment and the beat phenomenon in acoustics. The term originates from moire...
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  • with Thomas Young's discovery of wave interference of light by his double-slit experiment in 1801. The wave view did not immediately displace the ray and...
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  • interference experiment, and secondly because of its role as a thought experiment in double-slit experiment in quantum mechanics. Assume we have two long slits illuminated...
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  • distinguishability. This section reviews the mathematical formulation of the double-slit experiment. The formulation is in terms of the diffraction and interference...
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    interest in decoherence stemmed from furthering Bohr's analysis of the double-slit experiment in his reply to the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox, work he had...
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