Do individual photons refract when passing through glass?

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A very noobish physics question: Has it been experimentally verified, that individual photons get refracted, for example when shot one at a time through a glass, or does the refraction occur only with classical electromagnetic waves?
 
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It is experimentally verified that individual photons also get refracted. Which should not be surprising, of course, given the fact that a single photon also has a wave function.
 
there is a long discussion in this forum about photon refraction and reflection

look at the thread "mach-zehnder interferometer experiment" or something like that