in which photons appeared to be simultaneously acting as a wave and a particle, something that should no<\/span>t happen according to quantum physics.<\/p>\nThe authors of the new paper show that photons can behave differently depending on what part of the ring they came from. This \u2018sampling bias\u2019 is the explanation for the strange result, and the principles of quantum physics remain valid.<\/p>\n
The previous experiment split photons from a ring-shaped beam in two; some of these photons were picked up<\/span> by a particle detector, while others went through a slit and interfered with each other, something that only waves do.<\/p>\nOriginal research paper<\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0PNAS\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0August 11, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\nNames and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nEliot Bolduc, University of Ottawa, Ontario (currently at\u00a0Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Physicists have explained the results of a 2012 experiment in which photons appeared to be simultaneously acting as a wave and a particle, something that should not happen according to quantum physics. The authors of the new paper show that photons can behave differently depending on what part of the ring they came from. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2101,2099,50,2102,2100,347],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-double-slit-experiment","tag-light","tag-ontario","tag-particle-physics","tag-photons","tag-physics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-08-at-4.49.13-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Ib","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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