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Double-Slit Interference Pattern from Single-Slit Screen and Its Gravitational Analogues

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The double slit experiment (DSE) is known as an important cornerstone in the foundations of physical theories such as Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity. A large number of different variants of it were designed and performed over the years. We perform and discuss here a new version with the somewhat unexpected results of obtaining interference pattern from single-slit screen. We show using either the Brill’s version of the canonical formulation of general relativity or the linearized version of it that one may find corresponding and analogous situations in the framework of general relativity.

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Bar, D. Double-Slit Interference Pattern from Single-Slit Screen and Its Gravitational Analogues. Int J Theor Phys 46, 2626–2657 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-007-9377-3

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