The Double-Slit Experiment: An Interpretation via Chaos

Giulio Casati, Tomaž Prosen

Yunfei Tang, Yifeng Shen, Jiong Yang +3 more

In this paper, we report experimental evidence of wave chaos using the double slit water surface wave experiment. We demonstrate that classical dynamics of a domain manifests itself in the interference patterns after the diffraction behind the double slit. For a domain whose classical dynamics is integrable clear interference fringes can be observed behind the double slits; for a domain whose classical dynamics is chaotic, however, interference fringes can totally disappear. Our experimental results clearly demonstrate that the centuries-old double slit experiment can render an excellent tool to observe the manifestations of wave chaos.

Yakir Aharonov

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

Huei Peng

Abstract Young’s double slit experiments, which represent the mystery of quantum mechanics, have been interpreted by quantum probability waves and de Broglie-Bohm’s trajectory/pilot waves. To study in detail, the double slit experiments are extended to the cross double slit experiments. We argue that an interpretation must be able to explain all of the double slit and cross double slit experiments consistently. To test the interpretations, the comprehensive double slit experiments have been performed, which challenge both the wave interpretation and the trajectory interpretation. The cross double slit experiments and comprehensive double slit experiments provide a new tool for studying the mystery of double slit, wave-particle duality, complementarity principle, wave theory and trajectory theory. In this article, we review the cross double slit experiments and comprehensive double slit experiments, and report new experiments.

Hui Hua Peng

The single slit, the curve-single slit, the parallel double slit, the non-parallel double slit, the curve-double slit, and the non-parallel-curve-double slit experiments show the PhotoWave phenomena. In this article, by utilize the PhotoWave concept, we interpret the mechanism of the production of the Hybrid pattern (i.e., the two interference patterns respectively embedded in two diffraction patterns) of the non-parallel-double slit experiment. Based on the interpretation, we propose the math description of the Hybrid pattern.