TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jin, F.
AU  - Yuan, S.
AU  - De Raedt, H.
AU  - Michielsen, K.
AU  - Miyashita, S.
TI  - Corpuscular Model of Two-Beam Interference and Double-Slit Experiments with Single Photons
JO  - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
VL  - 79
SN  - 0031-9015
CY  - Tokyo
PB  - The Physical Society of Japan
M1  - PreJuSER-10240
SP  - 074401
PY  - 2010
N1  - 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.
AB  - 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.
KW  - J (WoSType)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000280096900022
DO  - DOI:10.1143/JPSJ.79.074401
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/10240
ER  -