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Paper   IPM / P / 14432
School of Physics
  Title:   Double-Slit Interference Pattern for a Macroscopic Quantum System
  Author(s): 
1.  H.R. Naeij
2.  A. Shafiee
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Found. Phys.
  Vol.:  46
  Year:  2016
  Pages:   1634-1648
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
In this study, we solve analytically the Schrödinger equation for a macroscopic quantum oscillator as a central system coupled to two environmental micro-oscillating particles. Then, the double-slit interference patterns are investigated in two limiting cases, considering the limits of uncertainty in the position probability distribution. Moreover, we analyze the interference patterns based on a recent proposal called stochastic electrodynamics with spin. Our results show that when the quantum character of the macro-system is decreased, the diffraction pattern becomes more similar to a classical one. We also show that, depending on the size of the slits, the predictions of quantum approach could be apparently different with those of the aforementioned stochastic description.

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