{"id":595814,"date":"2017-10-20T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=8baed073986e3ad102c5cf9cca572ccd"},"modified":"2017-10-20T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T23:00:00","slug":"software-aided-discussion-about-classical-picture-of-mach-zehnder-interferometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=595814","title":{"rendered":"Software-aided discussion about classical picture of Mach\u2013Zehnder interferometer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mach\u2013Zehnder interferometer has played an important role both in quantum and classical physics<br \/>\nresearch over the years. In physics education, it has been used as a didactic tool for quantum<br \/>\nphysics teaching, allowing fundamental concepts, such as particle\u2013wave duality, to be addressed from<br \/>\nthe very beginning. For a student to understand the novelties of the quantum scenario, it is first<br \/>\nworth introducing the classical picture. In this paper, we introduce a new version of the software<br \/>\ndeveloped by our research group to deepen the discussion on the classical picture of the<br \/>\nMach\u2013Zehnder interferometer. We present its equivalence with the double slit experiment and we<br \/>\nderive the mathematical expressions relating to the interference pattern. We also explore the<br \/>\nconcept of visibility (which is very important for understanding wave\u2013particle complementarity in<br \/>\nquantum physics) to help students become familiar with this experiment and to enhance their<br \/>\nknowledge of its counterintuitiv&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mach\u2013Zehnder interferometer has played an important role both in quantum and classical physics<br \/>\nresearch over the years. In physics education, it has been used as a didactic tool for quantum<br \/>\nphysics teaching, allowing fundamental concepts, such as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}