Critique of Wave-Particle Duality of Single-Photons

被引:2
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作者
Bhatta, Varun S. [1 ]
机构
[1] Indian Inst Sci Educ & Res Bhopal, Dept Humanities & Social Sci, Bhopal 462066, India
关键词
Wave-particle duality; Photons; Analogy; QUANTUM; LIGHT;
D O I
10.1007/s10838-021-09564-4
中图分类号
N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;
摘要
A prominent way through which wave-particle duality has been ascribed to photons is by illustrating their "wave-like" behaviour in the Mach-Zehnder interferometer and "particle-like" behaviour in the anti-correlation experiment. This duality has been formulated in two ways. Some have based the claim on the complementarity principle. This formulation, however, has already been shown to be problematic. Others have made a much simpler duality claim by considering that single-photons are analogous to waves and particles in the above experiments. I criticise this formulation by arguing that the analogies cannot be distinctly established. Thus, this duality claim is found to be unsubstantiated.
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页码:501 / 521
页数:21
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