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Reply to Comments of Steuernagel on the Afshar’s Experiment

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We respond to criticism of our paper “Paradox in Wave-Particle Duality for Non-Perturbative Measurements”. We disagree with Steuernagel’s derivation of the visibility of the Afshar experiment. To calculate the fringe visibility, Steuernagel utilizes two different experimental situations, i.e. the wire grid in the pattern minima and in the pattern maxima. In our assessment, this procedure cannot lead to the correct result for the complementarity properties of a wave-particle in one particular experimental set-up.

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    Eduardo V. Flores

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Flores, E.V. Reply to Comments of Steuernagel on the Afshar’s Experiment. Found Phys 38, 778–781 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-008-9234-0

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