The quantum sweeper effect

We show that during stochastic beam attenuation in double slit experiments, there appear unex- pected new effects for transmission factors below a <10−4, which can eventually be observed with the aid of weak measurement techniques. These are denoted as quantum sweeper effects, which are characterized by the bunching together of low counting rate particles within very narrow spatial domains.

We employ a “superclassical” modeling procedure which we have previously shown to produce predictions identical with those of standard quantum theory. Thus it is demonstrated that in reaching down to ever weaker channel intensities, the nonlinear nature of the probability den- sity currents becomes ever more important. We finally show that the resulting unexpected effects nevertheless implicitly also exist in standard quantum mechanics.

The article was published in: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 626: 012017.

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This work was supported (in part) by the Fetzer Franklin Fund of the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust.