ArXiv.org · 2001 · 24 citations · 0 references
EngineeringWave MotionN AtomsMeasurement ProblemWave TheoryQuantum ComputingQuantum EntanglementWave FunctionQuantum SciencePhotonicsNon-sequential BehaviorPhysicsAtomic PhysicsPhoton StatisticQuantum DecoherenceQuantum OpticNatural SciencesApplied PhysicsWave InterferenceSuperposed Atoms
An experiment is presented in which the alleged progression of a photon's wave function is ``measured'' by a row of superposed atoms. The photon's wave function affects only one out of the atoms, regardless of its position within the row, thereby manifesting not only non-local but also non-sequential characteristics. It also turns out that, out of n atoms, each one has a probability which is higher than the normal 1/n to be the single affected one.