Corpuscular Event-by-Event Simulation of Quantum Optics Experiments: Application to a Quantum-Controlled Delayed-Choice Experiment

TL;DR

This paper presents a corpuscular simulation model that reproduces quantum optics experiment results without wave equations, applying it to a quantum-controlled delayed-choice experiment to show particle-based understanding of quantum phenomena.

Contribution

The paper introduces a novel event-based corpuscular model capable of simulating complex quantum optics experiments without wave theory, including a quantum-controlled delayed-choice scenario.

Findings

Successfully reproduces results of various quantum optics experiments

Demonstrates particle-based explanation for a quantum-controlled delayed-choice experiment

Provides a unified corpuscular framework for multiple quantum phenomena

Abstract

A corpuscular simulation model of optical phenomena that does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation of the whole system and reproduces the results of Maxwell's theory by generating detection events one-by-one is discussed. The event-based corpuscular model gives a unified description of multiple-beam fringes of a plane parallel plate and single-photon Mach-Zehnder interferometer, Wheeler's delayed choice, photon tunneling, quantum eraser, two-beam interference, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm and Hanbury Brown-Twiss experiments. The approach is illustrated by application to a recent proposal for a quantum-controlled delayed choice experiment, demonstrating that also this thought experiment can be understood in terms of particle processes only.