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The wave-particle dualism in 1992: A summary

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We review the past and present theoretical and experimental situations relating to wave-particle dualism. New tests aimed at enlightening the individual behavior as awave, then as aparticle, of asingle quantum mechanical system in the same experimental run are presented. The related epistemological, philosophical, and historical backgrounds are presented in a twofold exposition taking into account thepositivistic standard Copenhagen interpretation as well as therealist de Broglian point of view.

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Combourieu, MC., Rauch, H. The wave-particle dualism in 1992: A summary. Found Phys 22, 1403–1434 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883732

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