This article is an extended version of the article “The double-slit experiment” that appeared in the September 2002 issue of Physics World (p15). It has been further extended to include three letters ...

Researchers replicated the classic double slit experiment using lasers, but their slits are in time not space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Physicists in Europe and the US have performed a novel version of the double-slit quantum-interference experiment with single electrons. In the classic version of the experiment, electrons pass ...

This sidebar is part of a package that supplements our story on quantum erasure in the May issue of Scientific American Here are several things you can check if you are having trouble getting this ...

IN NATURE of April 28, p. 268, Dr. R. A. Houstoun directs attention to the use of the spectrometer for Young's double-slit experiment. In a letter on “The Visibility of Interference Fringes and the ...

Optical interference is not only a fundamental phenomenon that has enabled new theories of light to be derived, but it has also been used in interferometry for the measurement of small displacements, ...

In a first, scientists have shown that they can send light through “slits in time” in time. The new experiment is a twist on a 220-year-old demonstration, in which light shines through two slits in a ...