Timeline for Electrons are interfering with what?
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| Oct 14, 2018 at 11:43 | vote | accept | ostrichguy | ||
| Oct 13, 2018 at 18:44 | comment | added | anna v | @JEB note the careful wording "contribute to the interference process", it is the boundary conditions which the incoherent, from inelastic scattering, electrons meet that change the process. | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 18:40 | comment | added | JEB | I'm not sure "electron interfering with other electrons" means anything, because an electron is not just identical to other electrons, it's indistinguishable from other electrons. | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 16:26 | comment | added | anna v | elastic scattering retains the phases in the wavefunctions of the individual electrons which pass the same boundary conditions. Inelastic ones are different solutions and the phases between successive electrons are lost, because of variable initial conditions | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 15:50 | comment | added | ostrichguy | I was going through the links you shared and found these. The physicists concluded that, while elastically scattered electrons can cause an interference pattern, the inelastically scattered electrons do not contribute to the interference process. What does it mean actually? Can you explain? | |
| Oct 13, 2018 at 15:36 | history | edited | anna v | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 13, 2018 at 15:30 | history | answered | anna v | CC BY-SA 4.0 |