This title appears in the Scientific Report :
2012
Event-based simulation of neutron interferometry experiments
Event-based simulation of neutron interferometry experiments
A discrete-event approach, which has already been shown to give a cause-and-effect explanation of many quantum optics experiments, is applied to single-neutron interferometry experiments. The simulation algorithm yields a logically consistent description in terms of individual neutrons and does not...
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Personal Name(s): | De Raedt, H. (Corresponding author) |
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Jin, Fengping / Michielsen, Kristel | |
Contributing Institute: |
Jülich Supercomputing Center; JSC |
Published in: | Quantum Matter, 1 (2012) 1, S. 20-40 |
Imprint: |
Valencia, CA
American Scientific Publishers
2012
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Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Computational Science and Mathematical Methods |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
A discrete-event approach, which has already been shown to give a cause-and-effect explanation of many quantum optics experiments, is applied to single-neutron interferometry experiments. The simulation algorithm yields a logically consistent description in terms of individual neutrons and does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation. It is shown that the simulation method reproduces the results of several single-neutron interferometry experiments, including experiments which, in quantum theoretical language, involve entanglement. Our results demonstrate that classical (non-Hamiltonian) systems can exhibit correlations which in quantum theory are associated with interference and entanglement, also when all particles emitted by the source are accounted for. |