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Two double-slit experiment questions
1) Would the fact that the particles interact with the wall edge at the slit affect the results? What if the wall thickness were thinner? Does this affect the resulting pattern? To generate a fringe pattern the slits have to be very small so there is clearly some wall-particle interaction. Wouldn't there be atomic interactions that affect the particles?
2) If photons, for example, are generated from the same source would they be correlated? Would the same results occur is each photon were generated by a different source? When the photon is "measured" by striking the wall it could affect subsequent measurements.
Does anyone know of source papers that address these questions?
- nabla9 5y ago1) No relevance to the phenomenon the experiment demonstrates. The end result in the screen is noisy from all possible interactions with no relevance to the demonstration. The wall must not allow the particle trough. 2) The nature or the origin of particle does not have relevance in the experiment. Double slit experiment is now done with molecules made of 2000+ atoms and 10k electrons. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0663-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0663-9