Double-slit experiment remastered
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13362v1
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:16:30 GMT
- Title: Double-slit experiment remastered
- Authors: Siddhant Das, Dirk-Andr\'e Deckert, Leopold Kellers, Ward Struyve
- Abstract summary: Time-of-flight measurements of helium atoms in a double-slit experiment are compared with arrival times of Bohmian trajectories.
This is the first qualitative comparison of a quantum mechanical arrival-time calculation with observation at the single-particle level.
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- Abstract: Time-of-flight measurements of helium atoms in a double-slit experiment
reported in [C. Kurtsiefer, T. Pfau, and J. Mlynek, Nature 386, 150 (1997)] are
compared with the arrival times of Bohmian trajectories. This is the first
qualitative comparison of a quantum mechanical arrival-time calculation with
observation at the single-particle level, particularly noteworthy given the
absence of a consensus in extracting time-of-flight predictions from quantum
theory. We further explore a challenging double-slit experiment in which one of
the slits is shut in flight.
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