Electrons travelling through two slits and a single slit. (Courtesy: Herman Batelaan/New Journal of Physics) Physicists in the US and Canada say that they have done the best job yet of realizing ...

Recently, Stanford University researchers Rashid Zia (now with Brown University) and Mark Brongersma have investigated light on the nanoscale with an adaptation of one of the most familiar optics ...

The precise methodology of Richard Feynman's famous double-slit thought-experiment – a cornerstone of quantum mechanics that showed how electrons behave as both a particle and a wave – has been ...

The double-slit experiment, first performed by [Thomas Young] in 1801 provided the first definitive proof of the dual wave-particle nature of photons. A similar experiment can be performed that shows ...

The predicted diffraction pattern for Auger electrons emitted from a recoiling oxygen molecule (left) and the pattern measured at SOLEIL. When a measurement reveals which atoms emit successive ...