Shahriar Afshar

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Shahriar S. Afshar (Persian: شهريار صديق افشار ) is a Iranian-American physicist. He is known for devising and carrying out the Afshar experiment at Harvard University in 2004.[1] The Afshar experiment is an optical experiment which may challenge the principle of complementarity in quantum mechanics, although there is as yet no consensus on this in physics. The result of the experiment appears to be in accordance with the standard predictions of quantum mechanics; however, it is claimed to violate the Englert-Greenberger duality relation. [2][3] [4][5][6][7][8][9] [10]

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  1. ^ Afshar SS (2004). "Waving Copenhagen Good-bye: Were the founders of Quantum Mechanics wrong?". Harvard seminar announcement. 
  2. ^ Marcus Chown (2004). "Quantum rebel". New Scientist 183 (2457): 30–35. 
  3. ^ Afshar's Quantum Bomshell
  4. ^ Afshar SS (2003). "Sharp complementary wave and particle behaviours in the same welcher weg experiment". IRIMS:quant-ph/030503: 1–33. 
  5. ^ Afshar SS (2005). "Violation of the principle of complementarity, and its implications". Proceedings of SPIE 5866: 229–244. doi:10.1117/12.638774. 
  6. ^ Afshar SS (2006). "Violation of Bohr's complementarity: one slit or both?". AIP Conference Proceedings 810: 294–299. 
  7. ^ Afshar SS, Flores E, McDonald KF, Knoesel E. (2007). "Paradox in wave-particle duality". Foundations of Physics 37 (2): 295–305. 
  8. ^ Marcus Chown (2007). "Editorial: Keep science fair, and keep it clean". New Scientist (2591): 2. 
  9. ^ Marcus Chown (2007). "Quantum rebel wins over doubters". New Scientist (2591): 13. 
  10. ^ ISNA - 02-12-2007 - 85/11/23 - سرويس: / پژوهشي / شماره خبر: 875253

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