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  2. Double-slit experiment - Wikipedia

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    The standard interpretation of the double slit experiment is that the pattern is a wave phenomenon, representing interference between two probability amplitudes, one for each slit. Low intensity experiments demonstrate that the pattern is filled in one particle detection at a time.

  3. Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment - Wikipedia

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    [2]: 184 Like the double-slit experiment, Wheeler's concept has two equivalent paths between a source and detector. Like the which-way versions of the double-slit, the experiment is run in two versions: one designed to detect wave interference and one designed to detect particles. The new ingredient in Wheeler's approach is a delayed-choice ...

  4. Higher order coherence - Wikipedia

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    Schematic diagram for the setup of the Young's Double Slit Experiment. In the double slit experiment, originally by Thomas Young in 1801, light from a light source is allowed to pass through two pinholes separated by some distance, and a screen is placed some distance away from the pinholes where the interference between the light waves is ...

  5. Observer effect (physics) - Wikipedia

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    A notable example of the observer effect occurs in quantum mechanics, as demonstrated by the double-slit experiment. Physicists have found that observation of quantum phenomena by a detector or an instrument can change the measured results of this experiment.

  6. Wave interference - Wikipedia

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    The Michelson interferometer and the Mach–Zehnder interferometer are examples of amplitude-division systems. In wavefront-division systems, the wave is divided in space—examples are Young's double slit interferometer and Lloyd's mirror. Interference can also be seen in everyday phenomena such as iridescence and structural coloration. For ...

  7. Delayed-choice quantum eraser - Wikipedia

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    In the basic double-slit experiment, a beam of light (usually from a laser) is directed perpendicularly towards a wall pierced by two parallel slit apertures.If a detection screen (anything from a sheet of white paper to a CCD) is put on the other side of the double-slit wall (far enough for light from both slits to overlap), a pattern of light and dark fringes will be observed, a pattern that ...

  8. Quantum eraser experiment - Wikipedia

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    This experiment involves an apparatus with two main sections. After two entangled photons are created, each is directed into its own section of the apparatus. Anything done to learn the path of the entangled partner of the photon being examined in the double-slit part of the apparatus will influence the second photon, and vice versa.

  9. De Broglie–Bohm theory - Wikipedia

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    The Bohmian trajectories for an electron going through the two-slit experiment. A similar pattern was also extrapolated from weak measurements of single photons. [3] The double-slit experiment is an illustration of wave–particle duality. In it, a beam of particles (such as electrons) travels through a barrier that has two slits.