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Originally Posted by mugaliens
I agree that it's a function of their wave nature. Electrons have a very strong kinship with photons. After all, it's the excited electron which emits a photon when it moves from it's excited orbital to it's base orbital. It's only natural that they might share some properties.
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It has nothing to do with the fact that electrons and photons interact. It has to do with the fact that both photons and electrons are quantum particles, and as such their state is mathematically a wave-function.
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Originally Posted by mugaliens
I wasn't aware, however, that electons exhibited the same properties with the dual-slit experiment as did photons (color me ignorant). Can anyone verify that this is indeed the case?
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You have never seen the cheesy 70s educational movie:
single electron interference ?
These experiments have been done with a lot of different type of particles, up to atoms and molecules, and in different media (such as semiconductors).
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Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
I was just commenting on "the single-particle interference is the consequence of the quantum nature of the particles"
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Ah, I see what you mean.
[So... this must be my
kilopi post, right?]