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More information: Qing-Feng Xue et al, Single- and two-photon wave-particle superpositions: Theory and experiment, Physical Review A (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022223.

In a sense, then, a photon or any other quantum object acts like both a particle and a wave. This ‘wave–particle duality’ embodies many of the central conceptual mysteries of quantum ...

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The wave is a wave of probability, because the experiment is set up so the scientists don’t know which of the two slits any individual photon will pass through.

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