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American Journal of Physics

Path integrals and quantum interference

A. O. Barut, S. Basri

Published Oct 1, 1992• 25 citations
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Abstract

The path integral treatment of the single and double-slit experiments, which illustrates the particle nature of single events and the wave nature of the statistical average of repeated events, is presented.
DOI
10.1119/1.17009

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