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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Towards an event-based corpuscular model for optical phenomena

Hans A. De Raedt, Fengping Jin, Kristel F. L. Michielsen

Published Sep 8, 2011• 0 citations
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Abstract

We discuss an event-based corpuscular model of optical phenomena that does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation of the whole system and reproduces the results of Maxwell's theory through a series of cause-and-effect processes, starting with the emission and ending with the detection of a particle. Event-based models of a single-photon detector and of light propagation through an interface of two dielectrics are used as modular building blocks to give a unified, corpuscular description of many optical phenomena. The approach is illustrated by applications to Wheeler's delayed choice, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm and Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiments.

DOI
10.1117/12.887438

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We present a corpuscular simulation model of optical phenomena that does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation of the whole system and reproduces the results of Maxwell’s theory by generating detection events one‐by‐one. The event‐based corpuscular model gives a unified description of multiple‐beam fringes of a plane parallel plate and single‐photon Mach‐Zehnder interferometer, Wheeler’s delayed choice, photon tunneling, quantum eraser, two‐beam interference, double‐slit, Einstein‐Podolsky‐Rosen‐Bohm and Hanbury Brown‐Twiss experiments. We also discuss the possibility to refute our corpuscular model.
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