A quantum field theoretic description of the delayed choice experiment
| dc.creator | Srikanth, R. | |
| dc.date | 2001-06-27 | |
| dc.date | 2001-09-18 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:02:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:02:20Z | |
| dc.description | Wheeler's delayed choice experiment, a well known manifestation of the complementarity principle, has proved somewhat difficult to physically interpret. We show that, restated in quantum field theoretic language, the experiment submits to a simple explanation: that wave- or particle-nature is imposed not at the slit plane but at the detector system. The intepretational difficulty conventionally encountered is due to the assumption of enforcement of complementarity at the former. | |
| dc.description | 3 pages; REVTeX; 3 new references added: Y.-H. Kim et al. (1995), D. Home (1994), J. Wheeler (1994); some changes to the Introduction; Version accepted in Current Science (2001) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0106154 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0106154 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/89569 | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | A quantum field theoretic description of the delayed choice experiment | |
| dc.type | text |