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On "Quantum interference with slits" and its "revisited"

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arxiv 1902.00015 v1 pith:HSWX7DV6 submitted 2019-01-31 quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mech

On "Quantum interference with slits" and its "revisited"

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Marcella in 2002 published a "quantum-mechanical" treatment of the famous single- and double-slit interference experiment in classical wave optics by a simple assumption that quantum mechanical wave function is a constant anywhere within a slit. Rothman and Boughn in 2011 commented that Marcella introduced no quantum physics into the problem other than\ a symbol substitution $p=\hbar k$, and the used essentially the classical wave optics. In present comment, we point out that though Marcella made a fundamental mistake, the problem is nevertheless remediable to give the satisfactory quantum mechanical results which are in qualitatively agreement with experimental ones with material particles.

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