The correspondence principle, the wave-corpuscle duality, the complementarity principle and the slit experiment

2005 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Keyword(s):  
Correspondence Principle ◽  
Complementarity Principle ◽  
Slit Experiment

Is the Uncertainty Relation at the Root of all Mutual Exclusiveness?

1997 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 398-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Sen ◽  
A. N. Basu ◽  
S. Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Interference Pattern ◽  
Uncertainty Principle ◽  
Uncertainty Relation ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
Complementarity Principle ◽  
Conventional Analysis ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Abstract It is argued that two distinct types of complementarity are implied in Bohr's complementarity principle. While in the case of complementary variables it is the quantum mechanical uncertainty relation which is at work, the collapse hypothesis ensures this exclusiveness in the so-called wave-particle complementarity experiments. In particular it is shown that the conventional analysis of the double slit experiment which invokes the uncertainty principle to explain the absence of the simultaneous knowledge of the which-slit information and the interference pattern is incorrect and implies consequences that are quantum mechanically inconsistent.

scholarly journals Aspects of complementarity and uncertainty

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (06) ◽  
pp. 1640031
Author(s):  
Radhika Vathsan ◽  
Tabish Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Uncertainty Relations ◽  
Complementarity Principle ◽  
Detection Process ◽  
Quantum Particles ◽  
Slit Experiment

The two-slit experiment with quantum particles provides many insights into the behavior of quantum mechanics, including Bohr’s complementarity principle. Here, we analyze Einstein’s recoiling slit version of the experiment and show how the inevitable entanglement between the particle and the recoiling slit as a which-way detector is responsible for complementarity. We derive the Englert–Greenberger–Yasin duality from this entanglement, which can also be thought of as a consequence of sum-uncertainty relations between certain complementary observables of the recoiling slit. Thus, entanglement is an integral part of the which-way detection process, and so is uncertainty, though in a completely different way from that envisaged by Bohr and Einstein.

Information theory and dimensions: Enhancing Quantum Mechanics

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 2470-2475
Author(s):  
Bheku Khumalo
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Quantum Tunneling ◽  
Particle Density ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Particle Theory ◽  
Knowledge Theory ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

This paper seeks to discuss why information theory is so important. What is information, knowledge is interaction of human mind and information, but there is a difference between information theory and knowledge theory. Look into information and particle theory and see how information must have its roots in particle theory. This leads to the concept of spatial dimensions, information density, complexity, particle density, can there be particle complexity, and re-looking at the double slit experiment and quantum tunneling. Information functions/ relations are discussed.

Heat, quantum mechanics and information

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 2692-2695
Author(s):  
Bhekuzulu Khumalo
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Energy Transfer Process ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Double Slit Experiment ◽  
Slit Experiment ◽  
Double Slit

Heat has often been described as part of the energy transfer process. Information theory says everything is information. If everything is information then what type of information is heat, this question can be settled by the double slit experiment, but we must know what we are looking for. 

Sound as a transverse wave

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 4522-4534
Author(s):  
Armando Tomás Canero
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Longitudinal Wave ◽  
Transverse Wave ◽  
Sound Propagation ◽  
Correspondence Principle ◽  
Classical Mechanics ◽  
Wave Model ◽  
Scientific Experiments

This paper presents sound propagation based on a transverse wave model which does not collide with the interpretation of physical events based on the longitudinal wave model, but responds to the correspondence principle and allows interpreting a significant number of scientific experiments that do not follow the longitudinal wave model. Among the problems that are solved are: the interpretation of the location of nodes and antinodes in a Kundt tube of classical mechanics, the traslation of phonons in the vacuum interparticle of quantum mechanics and gravitational waves in relativistic mechanics.

The Nature of Light

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank S. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Wave Phenomenon ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Particle Theory ◽  
Christiaan Huygens ◽  
Slit Experiment

Chapter 2 reviews answers to the question of what is light, starting with the ancient Greeks and ending in 1900 with the wave concept of Maxwell’s electrodynamics. For some ancient Greeks, light consisted of atoms emitted from surface of the object, whereas for others it was fire that either entered into or was emitted by eyes, although the latter possibility was effectively eliminated around the year 1000. Competing proposals well after then were that light is either a wave phenomenon or consists of particles, with Isaac Newton’s corpuscular (particle) theory prevailing by the end of the 1600s over the wave concept championed by Christiaan Huygens, who published the first estimate of the speed of light. In the early 1800s, Thomas Young’s two-slit experiment proved that light was a wave, a concept codified and firmly grounded through Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetic waves.

scholarly journals IMPLICATIONS OF A QUANTUM MECHANICAL TREATMENT OF THE UNIVERSE

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (05) ◽  
pp. 347-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
MURAT ÖZER
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Wave Packet ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Mechanical Treatment ◽  
Correspondence Principle ◽  
Scale Factor ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
Quantum Mechanical Treatment ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
The Universe

We attempt to treat the very early Universe according to quantum mechanics. Identifying the scale factor of the Universe with the width of the wave packet associated with it, we show that there cannot be an initial singularity and that the Universe expands. Invoking the correspondence principle, we obtain the scale factor of the Universe and demonstrate that the causality problem of the standard model is solved.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document