AUTHOR=De Raedt Hans , Michielsen Kristel 

TITLE=Discrete-event simulation of uncertainty in single-neutron experiments

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=Volume 2 - 2014

YEAR=2014

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2014.00014

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2014.00014

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=A discrete-event simulation approach which provides a cause-and-effect description of many<br/>experiments with photons and neutrons exhibiting interference and entanglement is applied to a recent<br/>single-neutron experiment that tests (generalizations of) Heisenberg's uncertainty relation.<br/>The event-based simulation algorithm reproduces the results of the<br/>quantum theoretical description of the experiment<br/>but does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation nor does it<br/>rely on concepts of quantum theory.<br/>In particular, the data satisfies uncertainty relations derived in the context of quantum theory.<br/>