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- Title
Critique of Quantum Optical Experimental Refutations of Bohr's Principle of Complementarity, of the Wootters-Zurek Principle of Complementarity, and of the Particle-Wave Duality Relation.
- Authors
Kaloyerou, P.
- Abstract
I argue that quantum optical experiments that purport to refute Bohr's principle of complementarity (BPC) fail in their aim. Some of these experiments try to refute complementarity by refuting the so called particle-wave duality relations, which evolved from the Wootters-Zurek reformulation of BPC (WZPC). I therefore consider it important for my forgoing arguments to first recall the essential tenets of BPC, and to clearly separate BPC from WZPC, which I will argue is a direct contradiction of BPC. This leads to a need to consider the meaning of particle-wave duality relations and to question their fundamental status. I further argue (albeit, in opposition to BPC) that particle and wave complementary concepts are on a different footing than other pairs of complementary concepts.
- Subjects
COMPLEMENTARITY (Physics); WAVE-particle duality; WAVE-particle interactions; QUANTUM mechanics; QUANTUM theory
- Publication
Foundations of Physics, 2016, Vol 46, Issue 2, p138
- ISSN
0015-9018
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10701-015-9959-5