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Possible experimental test of the causal stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics: Physical reality of de Broglie waves

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Mandel and Pfleegor have shown the existence of interference effects produced by the superposition of two independent single-mode lasers even under conditions in which one photon is absorbed before the next is emitted by one or the other source. We propose here a modification of their experiment which would establish (if the interferences persist) the simultaneous existence of waves and particles (photons), a result which is assumed as basis by the stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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  1. A. Garuccio

    Present address: Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France

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  1. Istituto di Fisica dell'Universita, Bari, Italy

    A. Garuccio

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Italy

    A. Garuccio

  3. Equipe de Recherche Associée au CNRS No. 533, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France

    J. -P. Vigier

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Work partially supported by collaboration between CNR (Italy) and CNRS (France).

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Garuccio, A., Vigier, J.P. Possible experimental test of the causal stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics: Physical reality of de Broglie waves. Found Phys 10, 797–801 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00708423

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