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Time-dependent neutron interferometry: Evidence against wave packet collapse?

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If the energy-absorbing radio-frequency spin-flipping device used in perfect crystal neutron interferometry is an intermediate measuring device, then the experimental results contradict the associated wave packet collapse and support the real existence of the de Broglie pilot waves in both arms while the neutron travels in only one.

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  1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, European Exchange Fellow temporarily at Institut Henri Poincaré, 11, Rue P. et M. Curie, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France

    C. Dewdney

  2. Istituto di Fisica, Università di Bari, Italy

    A. Garuccio

  3. Institut de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquees, Université P. et M. Curie 4, Place Jussieu, 75230, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Ph. Gueret

  4. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Institut Henri Poincaré, 11, Rue P. et M. Curie, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France

    J. P. Vigier

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On leave from the University of Crete, Physics Department, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, at Institut Henri Poincaré, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, 11, Rue P. et M. Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.

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Dewdney, C., Garuccio, A., Gueret, P. et al. Time-dependent neutron interferometry: Evidence against wave packet collapse?. Found Phys 15, 1031–1042 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00732845

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