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Boundary-Mediated Experimental Habitats and Light-Wave Signal Outputs: A Unified State-Computation Model from Paper Double Slits to 57Fe Nuclear-Resonant Double Waveguides and Single-Atom Wave Packets

Zhou Zheng

Published May 16, 2026• 0 citations
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This paper proposes a boundary-mediated experimental habitat framework for interpreting light-wave signal outputs in classical and modern double-slit-related experiments, including paper double slits, 57Fe nuclear-resonant nanoscale Young double waveguides, MIT single-atom wave-packet scattering, single-photon double-slit and quantum eraser experiments, controlled electron interference, and multipath nanophotonic-chip experiments. The central claim is that incident light or microscopic objects do not generate detector outputs as unmodified entities. Instead, they are transformed into object-relative information within an experimental habitat composed of apertures, atomic wave packets, nanoscale waveguides, resonant material layers, path-information structures, and detection systems. Core model: SP_i -> B_X -> CF_X -> IP_X -> O_X Here, an incident signal packet (SP_i) interacts with boundary constructs (B_X) and constraint fields (CF_X), generates object-relative information (IP_X), and is finally converted into observable output (O_X). Using publicly available experimental parameters, the paper recalculates representative quantities for ordinary double-slit interference and the 57Fe nuclear-resonant double-waveguide experiment. The calculations show that common visible-light double-slit conditions produce millimeter-scale interference fringes, while 14.4 keV nuclear-resonant X-rays in a 57Fe double-waveguide system with a 50 nm baseline can also yield millimeter-scale far-field fringe periods. A nuclear-resonant phase shift of order pi corresponds to an approximately 0.860 mm lateral fringe displacement at a 1 m detection distance. This paper is not a new 57Fe or MIT experimental report. It is a theoretical synthesis and habitat-informatics reconstruction based on published experimental literature. Its original contribution is a unified state-computation model in which light is treated as an electromagnetic-quantum wave signal modulated by boundary constructs. The paper integrates geometric apertures, nuclear-resonant material boundaries, single-atom wave-packet boundaries, and programmable multipath photonic-chip boundaries into a common object-boundary-signal-information-output framework, with falsifiable predictions and parameter-sensitivity reasoning.

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10.5281/zenodo.20241114

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