Visualization of a particle's wave function in the double slits experiment

TL;DR

This paper introduces a dynamic computer simulation of a particle's wave function in the double slits experiment, enhancing educational visualization of quantum interference phenomena.

Contribution

It provides a novel animated simulation of the wave function's evolution, leveraging numerical solutions of Schrödinger's equation for educational purposes.

Findings

Enables visualization of wave function dynamics in double slits

Demonstrates interference pattern formation over time

Enhances physics teaching tools

Abstract

The double slits experiment is a basic phenomenon, which allows to explain principal behaviour of quantum systems. However, textbooks present static pictures of corresponding interference patterns. At the same time, modern computer software for PDE solution provides an opportunity for dynamical modeling of a wave function behaviour using a numerical solution of Schroedinger's equation and to use the obtained demonstrations in a teaching of physics. This material presents such a dynamical animated simulation.