Double slit experiment in a Bubble Chamber

[JK423]

Has this type of experiment ever been performed?
Firing electrons one at a time we can easily get the which-path information and see if interference dissapears or not. What actually happens?

Also, if we do the double slit experiment with a usual laser but in a smoked environment (in order to see the tracks before and after the slits) what would then happen?
But for this i actually got an idea. The tracks of the photons in the smoke are not equivalent to the tracks of the electrons in a bubble chamber because in the first case the photons are either absorbed or scattered by the atoms. So the photons that actually reach the wall after the slits haven't interacted with the smoke ==> we will observe the interference pattern. Is the idea correct?

 

[James Leighe]

Has this type of experiment ever been performed?
Firing electrons one at a time we can easily get the which-path information and see if interference dissapears or not. What actually happens?

Also, if we do the double slit experiment with a usual laser but in a smoked environment (in order to see the tracks before and after the slits) what would then happen?
But for this i actually got an idea. The tracks of the photons in the smoke are not equivalent to the tracks of the electrons in a bubble chamber because in the first case the photons are either absorbed or scattered by the atoms. So the photons that actually reach the wall after the slits haven't interacted with the smoke ==> we will observe the interference pattern. Is the idea correct?

The pattern would not be there in either case, if you measure which way the particle is going at all it destroys entanglement information. Also, the particles that made it through the smoke undisturbed would in itself have been measured to NOT be in the areas of the smoke particles, which is measurement enough so they to would lose their entanglement information.

 

[Entropia]

I can say that the double slit experiment has been performed in various forms, including in a bubble chamber. In fact, the bubble chamber is a type of particle detector that has been used extensively in high energy physics experiments, including the famous double slit experiment with electrons.

In the bubble chamber experiment, a beam of electrons is fired one at a time through a chamber filled with superheated liquid. As the electrons pass through the chamber, they leave a trail of bubbles in their wake, allowing scientists to observe their paths and interactions with the environment.

When firing electrons one at a time through the double slits in the bubble chamber, scientists can indeed determine the which-path information and see if interference disappears. This is due to the fact that the electrons, as individual particles, still exhibit wave-like behavior and can interfere with themselves, creating an interference pattern on the detector.

Regarding the idea of performing the double slit experiment with a laser in a smoked environment, it is important to consider the nature of the particles being used. Photons, being massless particles, do not leave a trail of bubbles like electrons do in the bubble chamber. Therefore, the tracks of the photons in the smoke would not be equivalent to the tracks of the electrons in the bubble chamber.

Furthermore, as the idea suggests, the photons that reach the wall after passing through the slits have not interacted with the smoke and therefore would not be affected by it. This means that the interference pattern would still be observed, as the photons have not been scattered or absorbed by the smoke.

In conclusion, the idea is correct in that the tracks of photons in a smoked environment would not be equivalent to the tracks of electrons in a bubble chamber. However, this does not affect the observation of interference in the double slit experiment, as the photons are not affected by the smoke in the same way as electrons are in the bubble chamber.