Unsharp particle-wave duality in a photon split-beam experiment
Abstract
In a quantum mechanical two-slit experiment one can observe a single photon simultaneously as particle (measuring the path) and as wave (measuring the interference pattern) if the path and the interference pattern are measured in the sense of unsharp observables. These theoretical predictions are confirmed experimentally by a photon split-beam experiment using a modified Mach—Zehnder interferometer.
- Publication:
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Foundations of Physics
- Pub Date:
- September 1987
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00734319
- Bibcode:
- 1987FoPh...17..891M
- Keywords:
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- Theoretical Prediction;
- Single Photon;
- Interference Pattern;
- Zehnder Interferometer;
- Unsharp Observable