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Interference Demonstration

9 March, 2008 (05:55) | Education, Experiments, Physics

Over at Physics and Physicists, ZapperZ has a short post on an interference experiment that looks like a useful apparatus to demonstrate some of the quirkiness of QM. It shows both single-photon interference and, since it’s a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, it’s also easy to show the “which-path” effect that washes away the fringes.

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