query: Why do the two slits of a double slit experiment not make light coherent and create an interference pattern if monochromatic light is passed through?
positive_passages.docid: 6534
positive_passages.text: Is coherent light required for interference in Young's double slit experiment?
negative_passages.docid: 56452
negative_passages.text: What happens to waves when they hit smaller apertures than their wavelenghts?
negative_passages.docid: 20373
negative_passages.text: How to arrive on the diffraction pattern for the double slit experiment using path integrals for the Gaussian slit case?
negative_passages.docid: 147571
negative_passages.text: How does Fermat's principle make light choose a straight path over a short path?
negative_passages.docid: 61159
negative_passages.text: Decoherence and Young's double slit experiment
negative_passages.docid: 49692
negative_passages.text: Double Slit Experiment: How do scientists ensure that there's only one photon?
negative_passages.docid: 7332
negative_passages.text: Is the double-slit experiment typically carried out in a vacuum?
negative_passages.docid: 156879
negative_passages.text: "Reality" of EM waves vs. wavefunction of individual photons - why not treat the wave function as equally "Real"?
negative_passages.docid: 122405
negative_passages.text: Why does the refractive index depend on wavelength?
negative_passages.docid: 48690
negative_passages.text: Does a photon interfere only with itself?
negative_passages.docid: 20642
negative_passages.text: What happens when yellow light is passed through a prism?
negative_passages.docid: 116871
negative_passages.text: Do photons take all paths or not?
negative_passages.docid: 125032
negative_passages.text: Phase added on reflection at a beam splitter?
negative_passages.docid: 108968
negative_passages.text: Why does the Stern–Gerlach quantum spin experiment conflict with classical mechanics?
negative_passages.docid: 41537
negative_passages.text: How does light combine to make new colours?
negative_passages.docid: 32307
negative_passages.text: How can we interpret polarization and frequency when we are dealing with one single photon?
negative_passages.docid: 27820
negative_passages.text: What's wrong with this experiment showing that either FTL communication is possible or complementarity doesn't hold?