Description: Event-by-Event Simulation of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss Experiment with Coherent Light

This title appears in the Scientific Report : 2010

Event-by-Event Simulation of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss Experiment with Coherent Light

We present a computer simulation model for the Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment that is entirely particle-based and reproduces the results of wave theory. The model is solely based on experimental facts, satisfies Einstein's criterion of local causality and does not require knowledge of the solut...

Personal Name(s):	Jin, F.
	De Raedt, H. / Michielsen, K.
Contributing Institute:	Jülich Supercomputing Center; JSC
Published in:	Communications in computational physics (2010) S. 813 - 830
Imprint:	Wanchai Global Science Press 2010
Physical Description:	813 - 830
DOI:	10.4208/cicp.2009.09.131
Document Type:	Journal Article
Research Program:	Computational Science and Mathematical Methods Scientific Computing
Series Title:	Communications in Computational Physics 7
Subject (ZB):	J Computational techniques Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect light coherence light interference quantum theory
	Publikationsportal JuSER

Please use the identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.4208/cicp.2009.09.131 in citations.

We present a computer simulation model for the Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiment that is entirely particle-based and reproduces the results of wave theory. The model is solely based on experimental facts, satisfies Einstein's criterion of local causality and does not require knowledge of the solution of a wave equation. The simulation model is fully consistent with earlier work and provides another demonstration that it is possible to give a particle-only description of wave phenomena, rendering the concept of wave-particle duality superfluous.