Triple-slit Experiment (IMAGE)

University of Innsbruck

Triple-slit Experiment

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When waves -- regardless of whether light or sound -- collide, they overlap creating interferences. Austrian and Canadian quantum physicists have now been able to rule out the existence of higher-order interferences experimentally and thereby confirmed an axiom in quantum physics: Born's rule.

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