Abstract
The production of maxima and minima by the superposition of two or more light signals provides fundamental support for the wave nature of light. This result is based on the study of wave interference phenomena which remains the only approach to explain the production of those maxima and minima. In a system that is prepared to work with only one photon at a time, any detector can signal only one or zero. In 1986, a rigorously controlled experiment was designed by Grangier, G. Roger, and A. Aspect, [Europhys Lett. 1(4), p. 173, 1986] that guaranteed a single-photon beam. The explanation of the experimental results implied the interference of the wave function of a single-photon with itself. Thus, the explanation of interference that is accepted for an ensemble of photons was assumed to be valid for a single photon. In this study, we prepare a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using the same type of beam splitters used by Grangier et al. to test the assumption mentioned above. Our results allow us to explain the results of Grangier et al. because of the interaction between light and the beam splitters. Our results also verify that their wave interpretation of the results is not valid. Here, we present the essential findings of the extensive experimental evidence that supports our ideas.
Highlights
IntroductionChanging the phase difference between the two waves that arrived at BS2 resulted in changes in the probability of pho-
In our opinion, when. in [1] is state “this was achieved by observing the fringes in the focal planes of two lenses, ...” they were looking at the vertical fringes of the beam splitter interference (BSI) and not at the semi-arc of the MZ interference
The results shown here do not diminish the experimental work performed by [1] in any way. We have reinterpreted their conclusion. Their experiment shows that it is not possible to create interference via the superposition of the wave associated with the propagation of single photons
Summary
Changing the phase difference between the two waves that arrived at BS2 resulted in changes in the probability of pho-
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