The entire history of a photon

2017/07/20 by Wieśniak, Marcin
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1707.06481

Abstract

Using the most basic mathematical tools, I present the full analysis of the experiment decribed in [A. Danan, D. Farfurnik, S. Bar-Ad, and L. Vaidman, \em Phys. Rev. Lett. \bf 111, 240402 (2013)]. First, I confirm that the data presented therein are in full agreement with the standard quantum mechanics. I then show other symptoms of presence of photons at all mirrors in the setup. I then analytically explain both the absence of peaks a Readers of [A. Danan, D. Farfurnik, S. Bar-Ad, and L. Vaidman, \em Phys. Rev. Lett. \bf 111, 240402 (2013)] are made to expect and presence of those not discussed in the Reference.

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