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This chapter concerns the fundamental concept of wave-particle duality. We begin with an introduction to the topic, and an overview of key results from the literature.
Any other situation in quantum mechanics, it turns out, can be explained afterwards by saying, “you remember the case of the experiment with the two holes? It’s the same thing.”
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The intensity of light in Taylor’s experiment was roughly equivalent to a candle burning at a distance of one mile. J.J. Thompson’s expectation, which turned out to be incorrect, was that the diffraction pattern should be modified in the limit of very low light levels, as the corpuscular nature of the photon appeared.
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Shadbolt, P. (2016). A Quantum Delayed-Choice Experiment. In: Complexity and Control in Quantum Photonics. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21518-1_3
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