Afshar experiment | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-24

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00:01:02 1 Overview
00:01:42 2 History
00:03:15 3 Experimental setup
00:04:56 4 Interpretation
00:05:34 5 Reception
00:13:54 5.1 Specific support
00:14:15 6 See also



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SUMMARY
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The Afshar experiment is a variation of the double slit experiment in quantum mechanics, devised and carried out by Shahriar Afshar while at the private, Boston-based Institute for Radiation-Induced Mass Studies (IRIMS). The results were presented at a Harvard seminar in March 2004. The experiment gives information about which of two paths a photon takes through the apparatus while simultaneously allowing interference between the two paths to be observed, by showing that a grid of wires, placed at the nodes of the interference pattern, does not alter the beams.  Afshar claimed that the experiment violates the principle of complementarity of quantum mechanics, which states roughly that the particle and wave aspects of quantum objects cannot be observed at the same time, and specifically the Englert–Greenberger duality relation.   The experiment has been repeated by a number of investigators and its results have been confirmed, but its interpretation is controversial, and some disagree that it violates complementarity, while also disagreeing amongst themselves as to why.