The Double Slit Experiment for Photons

Siddhant Das, Dirk-André Deckert, Leopold Kellers +2 more

Hui Peng

Young’s double slit experiments have been descripted by wave theories, i.e., before and after passing through a double slit, the light is waves. To test the wave description, we extend the double slit experiments to the comprehensive double slit experiments which are the classical double slit experiments with added either Shield, or Blocker, or Metal tube, or Combination of Shield and Blocker, or Photon-Chamber, or Lens. We propose both “Postulate on light: light is photons before and after passing through double slit” and “Postulate on lens: light behaves same before and after passing through lens”. Then, we show the novel phenomena of the comprehensive double slit experiments: (1) the light is photons, not waves, before and after passing through a double slit; (2) it is the photons that form both the non-interference patterns and interference patterns in the same experiment; (3) the non-interference patterns gradually evolve to the interference patterns in the same experiment. We refer to the novel phenomena as “PhotoWave phenomena” that are universal. The comprehensive double slit experiments provide the novel phenomena for developing theoretical model to study: (1) the nature of the light; (2) the wave theories of the light; (3) the quantum theory of the light. A complete explanation is demanded and should describe all the comprehensive double slit experiments consistently.

Diane Riendeau

Hui Peng

Young’s double slit experiments have been descripted by wave theories, i.e., before and after passing through a double slit, the light is waves. To test the wave description, we extend the double slit experiments to the comprehensive double slit experiments which are the regular double slit experiments with added either Shield, or Blocker, or Metal tube, or Photon-Chamber, or Lens. The comprehensive double slit experiments show the novel phenomena: (1) the light is particles, not waves, before and after passing through a double slit; (2) it is the particles that form both the non-interference patterns (near the double slit) and interference patterns (near/on the detector) in the same experiment; (3) the non-interference patterns gradually evolve to the interference patterns in the same experiment. We refer to the novel phenomena as “PhotoWave phenomena” which are universal. For studying the wave theory further, we show the Irregular-Double-Slit Experiments including the non-parallel-double slit, curve-double-slit, non-parallel-curve-double slit experiments. The comprehensive-double-slit and irregular-double-slit experiments provide the new phenomena for developing theoretical model to study: (1) the nature of the light; (2) the wave theories of the light; (3) the quantum theory of the light. A complete explanation should describe all of the comprehensive double slit and irregular-double slit experiments consistently, which is a challenge. For this purpose, we propose a Dirac-type equation to describe the Particle pattern, Transition pattern and interference pattern produced by photons in a double slit experiment.

Hui Peng

Young’s double slit experiments have been descripted by wave theories, i.e., before and after passing through a double slit, the light is waves. To test the wave description, we extend the double slit experiments to the comprehensive double slit experiments by utilizing Shield, Metal tube, Blocker, Combination of Shield and Blocker with two triangle cuts, Photon-Chamber, and Lens. We propose both “Postulate on light: light is photons before and after passing through double slit” and “Postulate on lens: light behaves same before and after passing through lens”. Then, we show the novel phenomena of the comprehensive double slit experiments: (1) the light is photons, not waves, before and after passing through a double slit; (2) it is the photons that form both the non-interference patterns and interference patterns; (3) the non-interference patterns gradually evolve to the interference patterns in the same experiment. We refer to the novel phenomena as “PhotoWave phenomena” that are universal. The comprehensive double slit experiments provide the novel phenomena for developing theoretical model further to study: (1) the nature of the light; (2) the Feynman’s mystery of the double slit; (3) the wave-particle duality; (4) the wave theories of the light; (5) the quantum theory of matter. A complete explanation is demanded and should describe all the comprehensive double slit experiments consistently.

George Jaroszkiewicz