Quantitative complementarity in two-path interferometry

2003/11/26 by A. Bramòn, A. Bramon, G. Garbarino +2 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Bohr model #Classical mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Complementarity (molecular biology) #Computational physics #Interferometry #Optics #Physics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #hep-ph #nucl-th #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.69.022112

published as Phys.Rev. A69 (2004) 022112 · 11 RevTex pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2003/11/26 · openalex publication_date 2004/02/23 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The quantitative formulation of Bohr's complementarity proposed by Greenberger and Yasin is applied to some physical situations for which analytical expressions are available. This includes a variety of conventional double-slit experiments, but also particle oscillations, as in the case of the neutral-kaon system, and Mott scattering of identical nuclei. For all these cases, a unified description can be achieved including a new parameter \ensuremathν, which quantifies the effective number of fringes one can observe in each specific interferometric setup.

Citations

• Complementarity in the double-slit experiment: On simple realizable systems for observing intermediate particle-wave behavior
• Studies ofB0−B0mixing properties with inclusive dilepton events

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