We describe a double-slit interference experiment suitable for a beginning physics laboratory in which single photons are observed to interfere with themselves, directly demonstrating the wave-particle duality. When the photons are tagged to indicate which slit they passed through, the double-slit interference vanishes. Both the slits and the diffraction pattern are visible to the unaided eye.
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Sherwood Parker (1971) studied this question.
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