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Professor Mitchell explained, "The quantum interference we see in such circuits is very similar to that observed in the famous double-slit experiment." The double-slit experiment demonstrates the wave ...

Physicists at MIT recreated the double-slit experiment using individual photons and atoms held in laser light, uncovering the true limits of light’s wave–particle duality. Their results proved ...

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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 ...