On "Quantum interference with slits" and its "revisited"
Abstract
Marcella in 2002 published a "quantum-mechanical" treatment of the famous single- and double-slit interference experiment in classical wave optics by a simple assumption that quantum mechanical wave function is a constant anywhere within a slit. Rothman and Boughn in 2011 commented that Marcella introduced no quantum physics into the problem other than\ a symbol substitution $p=\hbar k$, and the used essentially the classical wave optics. In present comment, we point out that though Marcella made a fundamental mistake, the problem is nevertheless remediable to give the satisfactory quantum mechanical results which are in qualitatively agreement with experimental ones with material particles.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2019
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1902.00015
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1902.00015
- Bibcode:
- 2019arXiv190200015Y
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figures