No Paradox in Wave–Particle Duality

Foundations of Physics 50 (11):1723-1727 (2020)
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The assertion that an experiment by Afshar et al. demonstrates violation of Bohr’s Principle of Complementarity is based on the faulty assumption that which-way information in a double-slit interference experiment can be retroactively determined from a future measurement.

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10.1007/s10701-020-00379-9

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In AR Marlow, editor.J. A. Wheeler - 1978 - In A. R. Marlow (ed.), Mathematical foundations of quantum theory. New York: Academic Press. pp. 9.
Why the Afshar experiment does not refute complementarity.Ruth Kastner - 2005 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 36 (4):649-658.

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