Can diffraction be explained by quantisation?

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Jilang said:
I was wondering if the diffraction pattern through a single slit

The full answer is quite advanced but isn't along the of the slit quantizing the wave function etc. The paper I linked does not tell the full story but sometimes physics is like that - the answer depends on your level of sophistication.

Thanks
Bill
 

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