Double Slit Experiment in the Heisenberg Picture of Quantum Mechanics
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2604.22481 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 24 Apr 2026] Title:Double Slit Experiment in the Heisenberg Picture of Quantum Mechanics Authors:Vlatko Vedral View a PDF of the paper titled Double Slit Experiment in the Heisenberg Picture of Quantum Mechanics, by Vlatko Vedral View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:We present the standard double slit experiment with non-relativistic particles in the Heisenberg Picture of quantum mechanics. Our motivation is threefold. First and foremost, and contrary to some claims in the literature, we show that there is no need to talk about non-locality when explaining the interference fringes. Secondly, we emphasise the fact that even in the non-relativistic regime, and in order to preserve locality, we should define the position and momentum observables of a particle as functions of both space and time (and not just time). Thirdly, our presentation compares the projective measurements in the Heisenberg picture with the "Church of the Larger Hilbert Space", the latter of which is seldom discussed in the Heisenberg picture of quantum mechanics. Comments: Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2604.22481 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2604.22481v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.22481 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Vlatko Vedral [view email] [v1] Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:02:52 UTC (6 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Double Slit Experiment in the Heisenberg Picture of Quantum Mechanics, by Vlatko VedralView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-04 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)