Looped trajectories of photons in a three-slit interference experiment could modify the resulting intensity pattern, but they are experimentally hard to observe. Here the authors exploit surface ...

But just how, does this famous and central to quantum mechanics, constructive and destructive interference of the propagating waves of the Schrodinger equation manage to arise? Think about it.

The interference pattern of a double-slit experiment. The physics equations you learned in school don't work on the atomic scale. We have Newtonian physics to explain the world we can see and feel ...

When two or more light waves interact with one another, they result in the formation of different interference patterns. British physicist Thomas Young first demonstrated and explained these ...

The more accurately physicists determined the photon’s trajectory (confirming its corpuscular behavior), the more the wave-like interference pattern faded. The researchers observed that the wave ...