Event-Based Simulation of Neutron Interferometry Experiments
A discrete-event approach, which has already been shown to give a cause-and-effect explanation of many quantum optics experiments, is applied to single-neutron interferometry experiments. The simulation algorithm yields a logically consistent description in terms of individual neutrons
and does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation. It is shown that the simulation method reproduces the results of several single-neutron interferometry experiments, including experiments which, in quantum theoretical language, involve entanglement. Our results demonstrate
that classical (non-Hamiltonian) systems can exhibit correlations which in quantum theory are associated with interference and entanglement, also when all particles emitted by the source are accounted for.
Keywords: COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION; FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS; NEUTRON INTERFEROMETRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 June 2012
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