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'Observer in double slit experiment' publications available?
I've just found Dr Quantum video sample where double split experiment is presented conducted out by researchers. Are there any papers published in peer reviewed journals on that experiment to read in ...
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Double slit experiment and perforated walls' properties
I have a doubt about how double slit experiment is made.
Let's think about the perforated wall, what are the requirement for it?
Can a photographic plate could be used as a wall ?
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The Double Slit Experiment - delayed measurement
I'm not a physicist; I'm just curious about what would happen.
According to this video "Explained ! The Double Slit Experiment" (at 2:50):
"Somebody decided to leave the detectors on but just not ...
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wave-particle duality
I have been trying to understand "wave-particle duality" and other cases related to it. I am currently a college level student. I have few question which I am not getting answers clearly.
In double ...
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Double slit experiment alternating holes
If we perform the double slit experiment by shoting photons covering one hole at a time, would we see equally the double slit interference?.
That is, the same set up of double slit but fire photons ...
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Double slit experiments - basic pondering
I have some ponderings about the double slit experiment(s) and mainly their interpretations. Some of my questions may exhibit insufficient scholarship so please bear along, or please point out the ...
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What happens in this revised double-slit experiment?
Put the classical electron-emitting double-slit apparatus in a sealed box. At each slit there's a counter to check whether an electron has passed it or not, so had the apparatus been left in open, we ...
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Questions on wave-particle duality
Wave-particle duality states that a particle has both wave properties and particle properties when one is not observing it.
1) What is an observer? Need it be anything living or can other particles ...
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Double slit experiment and indirect measurements
In the classic Young double slit experiment, with slits labeled as "A" and "B" and the detector screen "C", we put a detector with 100% accuracy (no particle can pass through the slit without the ...
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What's inside the slit in double slit experiment?
If double slit experiment is done in a environment with air, then slits could also contain air made up of (approx. 80% nitrogen, 20% oxygen), then there is not empty space inside the slit. How can it ...
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Why incoherent source of waves have to be passed though a single slit for double slit interference pattern to occur?
Thomas Young used a single slit between the light source and the double slits. I can't understand why did he used the single slit, since the light from only one source is coherent already or isn't it? ...
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One-photon-at-a-time effect on double slit experiment with detectors?
I do not have a access to a physics lab, nor have I come across this type of a double slit experiment, hence I am curious if someone has tried this.
Given a double slit experiment setup with a ...
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Is the following a simpler viable alternative to Feynman's interpretation of the double slit experiment
Feynman suggested that there is an infinity of trajectories for a single electron travelling from the source to the phosphorescent screen. He said that one electron goes through both holes (Fig 4.10, ...
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How is wavefunction probability redistributed after partial wavefunction collapse?
Suppose I set up the double-slit experiment using photons as my particle. Behind the left slit I place a beam splitter that points some of the light off in the direction of a camera (represented as ...
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Where can you get a photon detector?
Say I'm doing the double-slit experiment with photons as the particle and want to add a detector just behind each slit to eliminate the interference pattern. Where would I get a detector like that?
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On the double slit experiment with 4 slits
I'm not a physicist nor a science savvy person, but I was wondering if this experiment was ever performed in a simultaneous fashion on screens with fixed references(marks) and firing different ...
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Matter wave of multiple particles of different types
I am slightly getting confused on the following issue:
When performing double-slit experiment of electrons, a screen allows the matter waves to be detected as particles. And as we all know that ...
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what is phase angle of wave function $\phi \,$?
this is wave function:
$$\Psi{(\vec r, t)}=\Psi_0 e^{i(\vec k \cdot \vec r-\omega t)}$$
$$\Psi{(\vec r, t)}=A e^{i(\phi + \vec k \cdot \vec r-\omega t)}$$.
what is phase angle $\phi$ of wave ...
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How Light or Water Intensity is equal to square modulus of wave function of Light or Water Waves $I=|\psi|^2 \,$?
I've seen the Wave Function as a psi $\Psi$ $\psi$.
And always heard that the wave function is the Complex Number as Imaginary and real number.
But I've never seen it
I've never seen components of ...
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How does the Double Slit Experiment work in detail?
What is the best detailed description/visualisation of the experiment available?
Describing what is actually measured, how the data is analysed, correlated and interpreted when for example large ...
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What kind of interactions denote 'observation'?
I'm quite perplexed by the notion of 'observation' in regards to the collapse of a particle's probability wave. Does a particle's wave only collapse when it is involved in a strong interaction (such ...
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Double-slit experiment with alternating on-off switch
Suppose we perform a double-slit experiment with a detector placed at a position of minimum intensity (maximum destructive interference), off-center where the path lengths differ by half a wavelength. ...
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Double Slit Problem Involving Superposition of Wave Equation [closed]
Here's my question:
To be clear it's part (iv) that's unclear to me.
I can see that the important bit is that the exposure is over a LONG time. Hence, this must have some implication on the manner ...
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double slit experiment with two opposite quarter waveplates
Consider the usual double slit experiment involving laser and a double slit and a screen. Now place in front of the left slit a quarter waveplate (let's call it QWP1) that changes a certain linear ...
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How to make DIY flight detector for double slit experiment?
I want to reproduce double slit experiment. So, is it possible to build flight detector (situated near one slit) at home? Is it possible to buy it somewhere?
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The Double Slit Experiment and the changing of electron behaviour
As you will all know, when one tries to detect which slit an electron has gone through with close up observation, it changes from behaving like a wave and producing an interference pattern to behaving ...
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Entanglement and the double slit experiment
Is the double slit experiment an example of entanglement when it seems as if the photon is going through both slits? Or put another way, is it at this stage when we attempt measurement we see a photon ...
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Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics.
Could anyone help me to understand the concept involved?
Double slit experiment can be easily understood by Wave nature of light, but while explaining it with photons, it required ...
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Probabilistic vs Statistical interpretation of Double Slit experiment
Why is it assumed that the results seen in the double slit experiment are probabilistic and not just a statistical result of some unknown variable or set of variables within the system.
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Young's Double Slit experiment question
Q-A beam of light consisting of two wavelenghts 600 nm and 450 nm is used to obtain interference in Young's Double Slit experiment (YDSE). Find the least distance from the central maximum where the ...
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Young experiment: square of classical real wave function
I can't understand why the sum of two real waves result in a time dependent wave, but not so for the complex waves.
In details, I can't get this passage on p.38-39 in A.C. Phillips, Introduction to ...
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Single photon and double-slit experiment
Laser fires single particles of light, called photons, through the slits. Even though only single photons of light are being fired through the slits and They create three pattern again. How single ...
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How does the Fraunhofer irradiance distribution look for a double slit aperture of different lengths?
How does the Fraunhofer irradiance distribution look for a double slit aperture with $d$ = integer multiples of $b$?
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First order coherence through double slit
The state $$|\Psi \rangle = |0\rangle + \sum_j \int d\omega f_j(\omega)\hat{a}^\dagger_j (\omega) |0\rangle $$ is coming from a far field and incident on a double slit setup. Here j is the index of ...
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An idea about the simultaneous observation of wave and particle property of light [closed]
It is well known that in a double-slit experiment with single photon source, one can not obtain the which-way info and interference pattern at the same time, since a detector placed behind one slit ...
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Quantum Mechanics proved incorrect. Bohr - Einstein debates concluded?
"Photons act like they go through two paths, even when we know which they took".
Please refer the above link and its conclusion.
I am an Engineer. What I infer from this is :-
This proves ERP.
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Is it the act of measuring a quantum particle that causes it to lose its uncertainty?
I have designed an experiment. Without going into detail it resolves around the double slit quantum eraser experiments. If we can infer the location of a particle without actually measuring it, does ...
