Photon Double Slit Experiment: Visualizing the Guiding Field

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Does the following picture which I think shows the guiding field for electron in the double slit experiment have a corresponding image when the experiment is done with photons?

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Those look like electron trajectories, not the guiding field. Trajectories for photons have been worked out for certain situations and produce similar pictures. See the references in the De Broglie–Bohm theory wiki page.

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The picture above is for electrons, and for photons it's similar. In fact, for photons it has been measured by weak measurements: http://www.kiroku.riec.tohoku.ac.jp/simon/quantum/science-2-slit.pdf
The result is presented in Fig. 3.
 
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