Where Photons Have Been: Nowhere Without All Components of Their Wavefunctions
A nested interferometer experiment by Danan et al. is discussed and some claims are evaluated concerning the whereabouts of the photon, primarily within the context of time-symmetric interpretations of quantum theory, including the Two-State Vector Formalism (TSVF) and the Transactional Interpretation (TI). It is pointed out that the TSVF account fails to predict the observed data based only on the first-order wavefunction component. It is shown that the Transactional Interpretation readily accounts for all the observed phenomena.
Authors
- Ruth E. Kastner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4466-6376)
Institutions
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Entropy
- Published
- 2025-11-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3390/e27111142
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00