Wave-Particle Duality

Single electrons through a double slit. Fire them one at a time with Fire 1 electron: each arrives as one localised dot. Let the stream run and the dots pile into interference fringes. Switch the which-way detector on and the fringes go, leaving the single-slit envelope. lambda = h / p with p = sqrt(2 m_e e V); the apparatus at the left is schematic, not to scale.

Accelerating voltage100 V
Slit separation d500 nm
Slit-to-screen distance L0.50 m
Slit width a100 nm
De Broglie wavelength  lambda = h / p
122.6 pm
Fringe spacing  w = lambda L / d
122.65 um
Electrons detected
0
Fringe visibility
1.00
Momentum p
5.403e-24 kg m/s
Speed
0.020 c
Angle to 1st maximum
0.245 mrad
Envelope first zero
613.2 um
Maxima in envelope
4
Slit gap over slit width
5.0
h = 6.62607015e-34 J s · m_e = 9.109e-31 kg · the stream stops at 20,000 detections