Macroscopic Violation of Duality Generated on a Laser Beam

Daniel Mirell, Stuart Mirell

Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, USA.
Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2013.47123                

Abstract

It is shown theoretically and experimentally that passage of a laser beam through particular conventional Ronchi gratings prepares the beam in an altered state that violates quantum duality. The violation is characterized by a readily measured net transfer of energy between the prepared beam and an unmodified beam from a similar, independent laser. Notably, the experiment is conducted with the beams at macroscopic power levels where measurability of the duality-violating transfer is vastly improved over that of the discrete photon regime. These results are consistent with other recently reported experiments that have challenged the validity of the duality-related principle of complementarity.

Keywords

Quantum Duality; Local Realism; Probabilistic Interpretation

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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