I Diffraction of Matter: Examining Bohr's Theory

[Mustafa Bayram]

Does matter (like electrons) diffract at the single slit and create an interference pattern on the screen? If it's not why? Isn't that violation of Bohr's Theory?

 

[Dale]

You need two slits for an interference pattern

 

[Mustafa Bayram]

light does interference pattern with a single slit, but matter doesn't. What happens to Bohr's wavelength? What happens to the wave-particle duality of matter?

 

[Nugatory]

Does matter (like electrons) diffract at the single slit and create an interference pattern?

The single-slit pattern is often called a diffraction pattern instead of an interference pattern (although it might be more sensible to call them both self-interference patterns). In principle single-particle single-slit setups will produce a diffraction pattern, although in practice the effect may be difficult to observe.

 

[Dale]

light does interference pattern with a single slit, but matter doesn't.

This is simply not true.

If you set up the experiment well matter will *diffract*. And more interestingly if you do a double slit experiment with matter you can get actual interference.

It is more difficult to do with matter, but it still happens.

 

[PeterDonis]

Does matter (like electrons) diffract

Yes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davisson–Germer_experiment

 

[vanhees71]

Does matter (like electrons) diffract at the single slit and create an interference pattern on the screen? If it's not why? Isn't that violation of Bohr's Theory?

For the sake of historical justice, Bohr did not discover wave mechanics. This were de Broglie and Schrödinger, who among others, helped to get rid of Bohr's ad-hoc theory, which only worked for the hydrogen atom ;-).