Quantum Physics inside a Drop of Paint tagged posts

Multiple reflections like in a drop of paint

Inside a drop of paint, light is scattered so often that it seems impossible to demonstrate quantum effects. But despite the thousands of possible paths the light can take, researchers of the Uni of Twente now show that there are just 2 exits. Depending on the light pattern that enters the paint, 2 photons always come out through the same exit, or through different ones – as though they avoid each other.

Most of the experiments showing that light sometimes behaves like a wave and sometimes like a particle, are as simple as possible: a physics textbook example is Young’s two slit experiment. The number of possible light paths is limited, but even at this level, the experiments strongly challenge our intuition...