References & Sources  -  September 5, 1998

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Wave or particle? Heisenberg, take a hike!

Atoms streaming through an obstacle course of light and microwaves switch identity as particles or waves because of quantum entanglements, rather than from Heinsenberg’s famous uncertainty principle.

 

References:

Dürr, S., T. Nonn, and G. Rempe. 1998. Origin of quantum-mechanical complementarity probed by a ‘which-way’ experiment in an atom interferometer. Nature 395(Sept. 3):33.

 

Further Readings:

Englert, B.-G., M.O. Scully, and H. Walther. 1994. The duality in matter and light. Scientific American (December):86.

Peterson, I. 1994. Linking particles, waves, and uncertainties. Science News 145(Feb. 19):118.

 

Sources:

Berthold-Georg Englert
Texas A&M University
Department of Physics
College Station, TX 77843-4242

Gerhard Rempe
Universität Konstanz
Fakultät für Physik
78457 Konstanz
Germany

Sze Tan
University of Auckland
Department of Physics
Math and Physics Building
38 Princes Street
Private Bag 92019, Auckland
New Zealand

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