Quantum interference, in particular ... surface ensured that the observed scattering behavior arose from fundamental quantum wave aspects rather than random surface irregularities or impurities ...

While each particle shows up at the detector individually, the population as a whole creates an interference pattern as though they are waves ... their behavior approaches the limits at which ...

It's as though if both paths are there as available options simultaneously, without restriction, you get interference and wave-like behavior. But if you only have one path available, or if either ...

To put it simply, physicists generally grapple with this odd behavior ... the light waves run into each other on the far side and create a pattern—called an interference pattern—on the surface ...

Each photon by itself appears to be contributing to the overall wave-like behavior that manifests as an interference pattern on the screen — even though they were launched one at a time so that ...

As a result, at the far end of the tank, you'll get an interference pattern from ... energy-exchanging interaction — destroys the wave-like behavior and forces particle-like behavior instead.

A key feature of quantum physics is the wave-particle duality ... along one path or another without interference. That selected the particle-like behavior for the system photons.

Physicists describe light as both a particle and a wave. In fact ... toward two slits still demonstrate the same wavelike interference behavior after they pass through—it's as though individual ...