• Event-based simulation
  • Single neutrons
  • Single photons
  • Quantum computation
• Quantum dynamics
• Biophotonics
• Quantum computation
• Morphological image analysis
• Time-resolved optical imaging
• Algorithms

Single-neutron experiments

The discrete-event approach, which has already been shown to give a cause-and-effect explanation of many quantum optics experiments, is applied to single-neutron interferometry experiments. The simulation algorithm yields a logically consistent description in terms of individual neutrons and does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation. The simulation method reproduces the results of several single-neutron interferometry experiments, including experiments which, in quantum theoretical language, involve entanglement. Our results demonstrate that classical (non-Hamiltonian) systems can exhibit correlations which in quantum theory are associated with interference and entanglement, also when all particles emitted by the source are accounted for.

• H. De Raedt and K. Michielsen,
  "Event-by-event simulation of quantum phenomena",
  Ann. Phys. 524, 393 – 410 (2012)
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• H. De Raedt, F. Jin, and K. Michielsen,
  "Event-Based Simulation of Neutron Interferometry Experiments"
  Quantum Matter 1, 20 –  40 (2012)
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• Event-by-event simulation of neutron interferometry experiments
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