Causality and Locality in Modern Physics pp 203-207 | Cite as
Neither Particle-Like nor Wave-Like Behaviour of a Photon
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Abstract
According to the complementarity principle, a photon behaves either as a particle or as a wave. That is, if it does not behave as a particle it necessarily behaves as a wave, and vice versa. It has also been argued that particle-like and wave-like behaviours are not mutually exclusive, and that a photon can also behave as a particle and as a wave. Here I propose a variant of a previous experiment in which a photon behaves neither as a particle nor as a wave. An alternative nonlocal realistic interpretation is presented, in which the notion of path followed by the photon can be meaningful.
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Probability Amplitude Entangle Photon Photonic Wave Complementarity Principle Quantum Measurement Theory
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