Journal Article

PreJuSER-19674

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Analysis of multipath interference in three-slit experiments

De Raedt, H. ; Michielsen, K.FZJ* ; Hess, K.

2012
APS College Park, Md.

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Abstract: It is demonstrated that the three-slit interference, as obtained from explicit solutions of Maxwell's equations for realistic models of three-slit devices, including an idealized version of the three-slit device used in a recent three-slit experiment with light [U. Sinha et al., Science 329, 418 (2010)], is nonzero. The hypothesis that the three-slit interference should be zero is the result of dropping the one-to-one correspondence between the symbols in the mathematical theory and the different experimental configurations, opening the route to conclusions that cannot be derived from the theory proper. It is also shown that under certain experimental conditions, this hypothesis is a good approximation.

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Note: This work was partially supported by National Computing Facilities, the Netherlands. Part of the calculations has been performed on JUGENE at JSC under VSR project 4331.

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

Research Program(s):

1. Scientific Computing (FUEK411) (FUEK411)
2. 411 - Computational Science and Mathematical Methods (POF2-411) (POF2-411)

Appears in the scientific report 2012

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