Can a photon be caught behaving like a wave and a particle in the same run of an experiment? For almost a century, that ...
Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a ...
Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...
Physicists confirm that light has two identities that are impossible to see at once. (Nanowerk News) MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of one of the most famous experiments in quantum ...