In 2002 readers of Physics World voted Young’s double-slit experiment with single electrons as ‘‘the most beautiful experiment in physics’’ of all time. Pier Giorgio Merli, Gian Franco Missiroli, and Giulio Pozzi carried out this experiment in a collaboration between the Italian Research Council and the University of Bologna almost three decades earlier. I examine their experiment, place it in historical context, and discuss its philosophical implications.
R. Rosa (2012). The Merli-Missiroli-Pozzi Two-Slit Electron-Interference Experiment. PHYSICS IN PERSPECTIVE, 14, 178-195 [10.1007/s00016-011-0079-0].
The Merli-Missiroli-Pozzi Two-Slit Electron-Interference Experiment
ROSA, RODOLFO
2012
Abstract
In 2002 readers of Physics World voted Young’s double-slit experiment with single electrons as ‘‘the most beautiful experiment in physics’’ of all time. Pier Giorgio Merli, Gian Franco Missiroli, and Giulio Pozzi carried out this experiment in a collaboration between the Italian Research Council and the University of Bologna almost three decades earlier. I examine their experiment, place it in historical context, and discuss its philosophical implications.File in questo prodotto:
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