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Bohmian trajectories for photons
Abstract The first examples of Bohmian trajectories for photons have been worked out for simple situations, using the KemmerDuffin-Harish-Chandra formalism
The GRA Beam-Splitter Experiments and Particle-Wave Duality of Light
Grangier, Roger and Aspect (GRA) performed a beam-splitter experiment to
demonstrate the particle behaviour of light and a Mach-Zehnder interferometer
experiment to demonstrate the wave behaviour of light. The distinguishing
feature of these experiments is the use of a gating system to produce near
ideal single photon states. With the demonstration of both wave and particle
behaviour (in two mutually exclusive experiments) they claim to have
demonstrated the dual particle-wave behaviour of light and hence to have
confirmed Bohr's principle of complementarity. The demonstration of the wave
behaviour of light is not in dispute. But we want to demonstrate, contrary to
the claims of GRA, that their beam-splitter experiment does not conclusively
confirm the particle behaviour of light, and hence does not confirm
particle-wave duality, nor, more generally, does it confirm complementarity.
Our demonstration consists of providing a detailed model based on the Causal
Interpretation of Quantum Fields (CIEM), which does not involve the particle
concept, of GRA's which-path experiment. We will also give a brief outline of a
CIEM model for the second, interference, GRA experiment.Comment: 24 pages, 4 figure