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Is the classical law of the addition of probabilities violated in quantum interference?

Dusan Arsenović1, Mirjana Bozić1 and Lepsa Vusković2

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We analyse and compare the positive and negative arguments on whether quantum interference violates the classical law of the addition of probabilities. The analysis takes into account the results of recent interference experiments in neutron, electron and atom optics. Nonclassical behaviour of atoms was found in atomic experiments where the measurements included their time of arrival and space distribution. We determine probabilities of elementary events associated with the nonclassical behaviour of particles in interferometers. We show that the emergence of the interference pattern in the process of accumulation of such elementary events is consistent with the classical law of the addition of probabilities.


PACS

42.50.Dv Quantum state engineering and measurements

02.50.Cw Probability theory

03.75.Dg Atom and neutron interferometry

42.79.Dj Gratings

03.75.Be Atom and neutron optics

Subjects

Quantum gases, liquids and solids

Computational physics

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Dates

Issue 4 (August 2002)

Received 4 December 2001

Published 29 July 2002



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