Published February 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Quantitative complementarity in two-path interferometry

  • 1. Grup de Fisica Teorica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra (Spain)
  • 2. Departament d'Estructura i Constituents de la Materia, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)

Description

The quantitative formulation of Bohr's complementarity proposed by Greenberger and Yasin is applied to some physical situations for which analytical expressions are available. This includes a variety of conventional double-slit experiments, but also particle oscillations, as in the case of the neutral-kaon system, and Mott scattering of identical nuclei. For all these cases, a unified description can be achieved including a new parameter ν, which quantifies the effective number of fringes one can observe in each specific interferometric setup

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Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
69
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 022112-022112.5
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

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(c) 2004 The American Physical Society