%0 Journal Article
%A Jin, F.
%A Yuan, S.
%A De Raedt, H.
%A Michielsen, K.
%A Miyashita, S.
%T Corpuscular Model of Two-Beam Interference and Double-Slit Experiments with Single Photons
%J Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
%V 79
%@ 0031-9015
%C Tokyo
%I The Physical Society of Japan
%M PreJuSER-10240
%P 074401
%D 2010
%Z We would like to thank K. De Raedt, K. Keimpema, S. Zhao, M. Novotny, and B. Baten for many helpful comments. This work is partially supported by NCF, the Netherlands, by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, and the Next Generation Super Computer Project, Nanoscience Program from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.
%X We introduce an event-based corpuscular simulation model that reproduces the wave mechanical results of single-photon double-slit and two-beam interference experiments and (of a one-to-one copy of an experimental realization) of a single-photon interference experiment with a Fresnel biprism. The simulation comprises models that capture the essential features of the apparatuses used in the experiment, including the single-photon detectors recording individual detector clicks. We demonstrate that incorporating in the detector model, simple and minimalistic processes mimicking the memory and threshold behavior of single-photon detectors is sufficient to produce multipath interference patterns. These multipath interference patterns are built up by individual particles taking one single path to the detector where they arrive one-by-one. The particles in our model are not corpuscular in the standard, classical physics sense in that they are information carriers that exchange information with the apparatuses of the experimental set-up. The interference pattern is the final, collective outcome of the information exchanges of many particles with these apparatuses. The interference patterns are produced without making reference to the solution of a wave equation and without introducing signalling or non-local interactions between the particles or between different detection points on the detector screen.
%K J (WoSType)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000280096900022
%R 10.1143/JPSJ.79.074401
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/10240