This article is an extended version of the article “The double-slit experiment” that appeared in the September 2002 issue of Physics World (p15). It has been further extended to include three letters ...

The interference of sound waves is not just of academic interest. For instance, it is the operating principle of noise-cancelling headphones. These create their own sound vibrations, which are tuned ...

For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether Albert Einstein or Niels Bohr had the better grasp of the quantum world. Now a ...

Perhaps one of the most famous experiments in physics has been giving us the wrong message all these years. For nearly two centuries, the double-slit experiment has been providing a direct visual ...

The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...

Specifically, the study uncovers a new form of quantum interference in molecule scattering. Unlike the more familiar "diffractive" interference that affects scattering angles (as in the double-slit ...

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Most people think of Sir Isaac Newton as the father of gravity. But for some physicists Newton's "dusty mirror" experiment has served as a launching pad for them to keenly watch the X-ray induced ...

One of the deepest mysteries in quantum physics is the wave-particle duality: every quantum object has properties of both a wave and a particle. Nowhere is this effect more beautifully demonstrated ...

The quantum rules shaping molecular collisions are now coming into focus, offering fresh insights for chemistry and materials science. (Nanowerk News) The quantum rules shaping molecular collisions ...