@bhobba Thank you so much for the arxiv link 0703126
Finally, someone who points out (correctly) that presently "classical wave optics, rather than quantum mechanics, is (being) used to explain quantum interference" in slit experiments. He then goes on to frame the problem in QT. While this...
@hutchphd Thank you again for your insightful comments. From memory (which is definitely not the best source) Feynman's path integral formulation of scattering theory is about scattering of free plane waves from a local potential. While wavelength may not be explicitly invoked, the path...
I agree with almost everything that you have stated. I would like to pose a related but different question.
If one had never heard of the de Broglie equation and therefore unable to use that relation, is it possible to arrive at an accurate quantitative description of slit diffraction patterns...
Thank you for your insightful reply. I am indeed pleased to communicate with someone close to the work. In my opinion, the experimental physicists involved in these experiments deserve all respect and thorough congratulations for their creative and innovate skills in producing such accurate...
The question is not so much about the name given to the theory and its history. The real question is whether the scientific community accepts that wave theory (borrowed from optics - Kirchhoff, Fresnel, Fraunhofer) satisfactorily describes the diffraction patterns quantitatively.
Or is there a...
Hi Anuttarasammyak
The following are two experiments where there were problems fitting optics theory to experimental results.
Page 323 of AJP Vol 71 No 4, 2003
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1531580
The paragraph beginning " In principle, the diffraction patterns can be understood...
The observed diffraction patterns in slit experiments are held up as proof of wave-particle duality. But wave theory diffraction (borrowed from optics - Kirchoff's Laws, Fresenel & Fraunhofer diffraction) don't quite fit the experimental results. There is always some tinkering to get theory to...