The single slit diffraction pattern is based upon the width of the slit, while the double slit interference pattern is based upon the spacing between the slits.

This occurs because the wave-like property of each particle allows it to travel through both slits at once. Einstein pointed out that an extremely sensitive sensor could detect the recoil of the ...

As light passes through two narrow, close-to-each-other slits, it interacts creating a diffraction pattern. Scientists have long suspected that the same would happen if the double-slit were to ...

The double-slit experiment serves as a foundation for our understanding of matter. Light, when passed through a pair of parallel slits onto a photosensitive detector, reveals a pattern of bright ...

The double-slit experiment was designed to investigate whether light is a wave or a particle. It is one of the most famous and weirdest experiments in physics.

Reports and Proceedings American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) image: Experimental double-slit diffraction pattern showing full spatial coherence of an isolated harmonic at 13 nm.

If you cut two slits in a piece of cardboard and put a flashlight behind it, a beautiful diffraction pattern forms on the other side. This double-slit diffraction also happens with electrons and ...

Researchers have replicated the classic double-slit experiment using lasers. But their slits are in time, not space ...

The double-slit experiment is one of the most bizarre experiments in modern physics, and cuts to the heart of the weirdness of quantum mechanics.