TY - JOUR AU - De Raedt, H. AU - Michielsen, K. AU - Hess, K. TI - Analysis of multipath interference in three-slit experiments JO - Physical review / A VL - 85 IS - 1 SN - 1050-2947 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - PreJuSER-19674 SP - 012101 PY - 2012 N1 - 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. AB - 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. KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000298860600003 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.85.012101 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/19674 ER -