scholarly journals Quantum interactive learning tutorial on the double-slit experiment to improve student understanding of quantum mechanics

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Sayer ◽  
Alexandru Maries ◽  
Chandralekha Singh
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Interactive Learning ◽  
Student Understanding ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Heat, quantum mechanics and information

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 2692-2695
Author(s):  
Bhekuzulu Khumalo
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Energy Transfer Process ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Heat has often been described as part of the energy transfer process. Information theory says everything is information. If everything is information then what type of information is heat, this question can be settled by the double slit experiment, but we must know what we are looking for. 

scholarly journals Comprehensive Double Slit Experiments-Exploring Experimentally Mystery of Double Slit

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Peng
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Probability ◽  
Laser Source ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Abstract Young’s double slit experiments, which represent the mystery of quantum mechanics, have been interpreted by quantum probability waves and pilot waves. In this article, to study the mystery, we proposed and carried out comprehensive double slit experiments, which demonstrate two postulates related to double slit experiments: (1) before striking at the slide of a double slit, photons emitted by a laser source behave as particles; (2) before striking at the detector, photons behave as particles. Progress in studying the mystery of the double slit experiment is presented.

scholarly journals A Chemical-Physical View of the Interpretation of Wavefunction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kourosh Ebrahimi
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Real World ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
Probabilistic Interpretation ◽  
Action At A Distance ◽  
Physical And Chemical ◽  
Classical And Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Here, based on different experimental setups and thought experiments it is shown that some of the predictions of the nonlocal probabilistic interpretation of wavefunction are not observed and that this interpretation does not account for the real-world physical and chemical interactions. Considering these interactions, classical and quantum mechanics are unified and a testable, local, and probabilistic interpretation of wavefunction is proposed in explaining the outcome of a double-slit experiment. This analysis suggests that there is no spooky action at a distance.

The Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) eliminates Wave Particle Duality

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1916-1922
Author(s):  
Jeffrey H Boyd
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Wave Function Collapse ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Elementary Waves ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Wave particle duality is a mistake. Another option was neither conceived nor debated, which is a better foundation for quantum mechanics. The Theory of Elementary Waves (TEW) is based on the idea that particles follow zero energy waves backwards. A particle cannot be identical with its wave if they travel in opposite directions. TEW is the only form of local realism that is consistent with the results of the experiment by Aspect, Dalibard and Roger (1982). Here we show that 1. although QM teaches that complementarity in a double slit experiment cannot be logically explained, TEW explains it logically, without wave function collapse, and 2. gives an unconventional explanation of the Davisson Germer experiment. 3. There is empirical evidence for countervailing waves and particles and 4. zero energy waves. 5. TEW clarifies our understanding of probability amplitudes and supports quantum math. 6. There is an untested experiment for which TEW and wave particle duality predict different outcomes. If TEW is valid, then wave particle duality is not necessary for quantum math, which is the most accurate and productive science ever. With a more solid foundation, new vistas of science open, such as the study of elementary waves.

scholarly journals Schwinger’s picture of quantum mechanics III: The statistical interpretation

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. 1950165 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Ciaglia ◽  
A. Ibort ◽  
G. Marmo
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Statistical Interpretation ◽  
Algebra Of Observables ◽  
Quantum Measure ◽  
Transformation Functions ◽  
Transition Amplitudes ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Schwinger’s algebra of selective measurements has a natural interpretation in the formalism of groupoids. Its kinematical foundations, as well as the structure of the algebra of observables of the theory, were presented in [F. M. Ciaglia, A. Ibort and G. Marmo, Schwinger’s picture of quantum mechanics I: Groupoids, Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phys. (2019), arXiv: 1905.12274 [math-ph]. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219887819501196 . F. M. Ciaglia, A. Ibort and G. Marmo, Schwinger’s picture of quantum mechanics II: Algebras and observables, Int. J. Geom. Meth. Mod. Phys. (2019). https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219887819501366 ]. In this paper, a closer look to the statistical interpretation of the theory is taken and it is found that an interpretation in terms of Sorkin’s quantum measure emerges naturally. It is proven that a suitable class of states of the algebra of virtual transitions of the theory allows to define quantum measures by means of the corresponding decoherence functionals. Quantum measures satisfying a reproducing property are described and a class of states, called factorizable states, possessing the Dirac–Feynman “exponential of the action” form are characterized. Finally, Schwinger’s transformation functions are interpreted similarly as transition amplitudes defined by suitable states. The simple examples of the qubit and the double slit experiment are described in detail, illustrating the main aspects of the theory.

scholarly journals THE PHYSICS OF QUANTUM INFORMATION: COMPLEMENTARITY, UNCERTAINTY, AND ENTANGLEMENT

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (08) ◽  
pp. 1330002 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSEPH M. RENES
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Quantum Information ◽  
Quantum Information Processing ◽  
Quantum Information Theory ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Complementarity is one of the central mysteries of quantum mechanics, dramatically illustrated by the wave-particle duality in Young's double-slit experiment, and famously regarded by Feynman as "impossible, absolutely impossible to describe classically, [and] which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics" (emphasis original).1 The overarching goal of this thesis is to demonstrate that complementarity is also at the heart of quantum information theory, that it allows us to make (some) sense of just what information "quantum information" refers to, and that it is useful in understanding and constructing quantum information processing protocols.

scholarly journals The double slit experiment with polarizers

2011 ◽  
Vol 89 (11) ◽  
pp. 1079-1081
Author(s):  
M. Holden ◽  
D.G.C. McKeon ◽  
T.N. Sherry
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Photon Beam ◽  
Beam Incident ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit ◽  
Standard Arrangement

The double slit experiment provides a standard way of demonstrating how quantum mechanics works. We consider modifying the standard arrangement so that a photon beam incident upon the double slit encounters a polarizer in front of either one or both of the slits.

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