TY - JOUR
AU - De Raedt, H.
AU - Jin, Fengping
AU - Michielsen, Kristel
TI - Event-based simulation of neutron interferometry experiments
JO - Quantum Matter
VL - 1
IS - 1
CY - Valencia, CA
PB - American Scientific Publishers
M1 - FZJ-2012-01016
SP - 20-40
PY - 2012
AB - A discrete-event approach, which has already been shown to give a cause-and-effect explanation of many quantum optics experiments, is applied to single-neutron interferometry experiments. The simulation algorithm yields a logically consistent description in terms of individual neutrons and does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation. It is shown that the simulation method reproduces the results of several single-neutron interferometry experiments, including experiments which, in quantum theoretical language, involve entanglement. Our results demonstrate that classical (non-Hamiltonian) systems can exhibit correlations which in quantum theory are associated with interference and entanglement, also when all particles emitted by the source are accounted for.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/128121
ER -