Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

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For more than a century, the double-slit experiment has been the sharpest test of what reality is made of, and of whether ...

A photon was apparently detected in two places at once in a twist on the classic double-slit experiment, but many physicists ...

Experiment schematic: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a highly ...

Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a ...

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