{"id":180739,"date":"2024-01-17T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T04:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-observe-the-wave-particle-duality-of-two-photons"},"modified":"2024-01-17T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T04:22:46","slug":"researchers-observe-the-wave-particle-duality-of-two-photons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-observe-the-wave-particle-duality-of-two-photons","title":{"rendered":"Researchers observe the wave-particle duality of two photons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-observe-the-wave-particle-duality-of-two-photons3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding the nature of quantum objects\u2019 behaviors is the premise for a reasonable description of the quantum world. Depending on whether the interference can be produced or not, the quantum object is endowed with dual features of a wave and a particle, i.e., the so-called wave-particle duality (WPD), which are generally observed in the so-called mutually exclusive experimental arrangements in the sense of Bohr\u2019s complementarity principle.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicist John Wheeler proposed the delayed-choice experiment in the 1980s, pointing out that the methods used to observe photons will ultimately determine whether their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/behavior\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">behavior<\/a> is like particles or waves.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Ionicioiu and Terno proposed a quantum version of the delayed-choice experiment, by which the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon<\/a> can be forced into a superposed state of the particle and wave and exhibits continuous morphing between those two sides with changing the controlling parameter of the ancilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the nature of quantum objects\u2019 behaviors is the premise for a reasonable description of the quantum world. Depending on whether the interference can be produced or not, the quantum object is endowed with dual features of a wave and a particle, i.e., the so-called wave-particle duality (WPD), which are generally observed in the so-called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}