7 oktober 2004
Jo van den Brand
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Some key papers in the development of the double-slit experiment during the 20th century:
•Performed with a light source so faint that only one photon exists in the apparatus at any one time
G I Taylor 1909 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 15 114-115
•Performed with electrons
C Jönsson 1961 Zeitschrift für Physik 161 454-474,
(translated 1974 American Journal of Physics 42 4-11)
•Performed with single electrons
A Tonomura et al. 1989 American Journal of Physics 57 117-120
•Performed with neutrons
A Zeilinger et al. 1988 Reviews of Modern Physics 60 1067-1073
•Performed with He atoms
O Carnal and J Mlynek 1991 Physical Review Letters 66 2689-2692
•Performed with C60 molecules
M Arndt et al. 1999 Nature 401 680-682
•Performed with Na Bose-Einstein Condensates
M R Andrews et al. 1997 Science 275 637-641
An excellent summary is available in Physics World (September 2002 issue, page 15)
and at http://physicsweb.org/ (readers voted the double-slit experiment “the most beautiful in physics”).
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