COMPLEMENTARITY IN THE DOUBLE-SLIT EXPERIMENT - QUANTUM NON-SEPARABILITY AND A QUANTITATIVE STATEMENT OF BOHRS PRINCIPLE

被引:484
作者
WOOTTERS, WK [1 ]
ZUREK, WH [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TEXAS, CTR STAT MECH, AUSTIN, TX 78712 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 1979年 / 19卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.19.473
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
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A detailed analysis of Einstein's version of the double-slit experiment, in which one tries to observe both wave and particle properties of light, is performed. Quantum nonseparability appears in the derivation of the interference pattern, which proves to be surprisingly sharp even when the trajectories of the photons have been determined with fairly high accuracy. An information-theoretic approach to this problem leads to a quantitative formulation of Bohr's complementarity principle for the case of the double-slit experiment. A practically realizable version of this experiment, to which the above analysis applies, is proposed. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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