This simulator implements the Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment in an ideal Interferometer of Mach-Zehnder type, as desccribed by John Archibald Wheeler and Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Editors in "Quantum Theory and Measurement" , Princeton Series in Physics, (1984).
The simulator shows the basic fundamental ideas of the Quantum Mechanics:
Wave-Particle nature of Photon Probabilistic interpretation of Quantum Mechanics Superposition of Quantum States in Beam Splitting Interference of states in One Photon experiments The striking difference between Photons and Classical particles, i.e. between Quantum Mechanics and Classical Common Sense intuitions
The simulator has a wide target range, from High School to Physics Undergraduate students.
WheelerDelayedExperiment.pdf is a PDF file with the QM Background and the simulator use.
WheelerDelayed_1.mp4 is a video tutorial and User Guide.
Please note that this resource requires
at least version 1.7 of Java (JRE).
Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment Manual
A user manual for the Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment Model. download 581kb .pdf
Last Modified: January 13, 2015
Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment Video Tutorial
A short video tutorial showing how to run the Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment simulation. download 8658kb .mp4
Last Modified: January 13, 2015
Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment Source Code
The source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment Model. Unzip this archive in your EjsS workspace to compile and run this model using EjsS. download 512kb .zip
Last Modified: January 13, 2015
J. Fernández, Computer Program WHEELER'S DELAYED CHOICE EXPERIMENT MODEL (2015), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13397&DocID=3984).
J. Fernández, Computer Program WHEELER'S DELAYED CHOICE EXPERIMENT MODEL (2015), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13397&DocID=3984>.
Fernández, J. (2015). Wheeler's Delayed Choice Experiment Model [Computer software]. Retrieved December 7, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13397&DocID=3984
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