High School What Is the Occurrence Rate of Path Integral in a Photon Double-Slit Experiment?

[HexHammer]

TL;DR

Double Slit Experiment

Hi forgive my very ignorant question.

How frequently does 'Path Integral', curved shot and normal shot happen out of say 100 shots with a photon?

 

[Vanadium 50]

I have no idea what that means.

 

[PeterDonis]

Path Integral', curved shot and normal shot

What do you mean by these terms?

A reference would help.

 

[HexHammer]

What do you mean by these terms?

A reference would help.

A "normal shot" is when the photon goes straight, but some times it will go in a curve, and then some times it will go in a crazy path making elaborate circles.

It was Richard Feynman that found this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation

 

[PeterDonis]

A "normal shot" is when the photon goes straight, but some times it will go in a curve, and then some times it will go in a crazy path making elaborate circles.

These are not descriptions of different ways a photon will go in different runs of a double slit experiment. They are descriptions of paths that are included in the path integral that calculates the probability for a photon to be detected at a particular point on the detector in a single run of the experiment. So the question you are asking in the OP is unanswerable since it's based on a misconception about what the different paths are.

 

[HexHammer]

These are not descriptions of different ways a photon will go in different runs of a double slit experiment. They are descriptions of paths that are included in the path integral that calculates the probability for a photon to be detected at a particular point on the detector in a single run of the experiment. So the question you are asking in the OP is unanswerable since it's based on a misconception about what the different paths are.

Many thanks, that's all i needed to hear.

 

[vanhees71]

Note, however, this interesting paper. At higher accuracy the double-slit setup looses all it's simplicity ;-)):

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06401v2