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用干涉实验检验量子理论对基于事件的过程的适用性的建议

Proposal for an interference experiment to test the applicability of quantum theory to event-based processes

K. Michielsen, Th. Lippert, M. Richter, B. Barbara, S. Miyashita, H. De Raedt

摘要:

我们分析了一个单粒子马赫-曾德尔干涉仪的实验中,一个臂的路径长度可能会改变(随机或系统地)根据一个外部的二值变量$x$的值,对于每个通道的粒子通过干涉仪。量子理论预测干涉图样与$x$的值的序列无关。另一方面,再现到目前为止进行的量子光学实验结果的微粒模型显示出降低的可见度和干涉图案的偏移,这取决于$x$的值的序列的细节。所提出的实验将表明:(1)它可以用量子理论来描述,因此不能用当前的微粒模型来描述;(2)它不能用量子理论来描述,但可以用微粒模型或其变体来描述;(3)它既不能用量子理论来描述,也不能用微粒模型来描述。因此,拟议中的实验可以用来确定量子理论在多大程度上提供了超出通常统计水平的对观测事件的描述。

英文摘要:

We analyze a single-particle Mach-Zehnder interferometer experiment in which the path length of one arm may change (randomly or systematically) according to the value of an external two-valued variable $x$, for each passage of a particle through the interferometer. Quantum theory predicts an interference pattern that is independent of the sequence of the values of $x$. On the other hand, corpuscular models that reproduce the results of quantum optics experiments carried out up to this date show a reduced visibility and a shift of the interference pattern depending on the details of the sequence of the values of $x$. The proposed experiment will show that: (1) it can be described by quantum theory, and thus not by the current corpuscular models, or (2) it cannot be described by quantum theory but can be described by the corpuscular models or variations thereof, or (3) it can neither be described by quantum theory nor by corpuscular models. Therefore, the proposed experiment can be used to determine to what extent quantum theory provides a description of observed events beyond the usual statistical level.

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