Event-based simulation of quantum physics experiments

Abstract

We review an event-based simulation approach which reproduces the statistical distributions of wave theory not by requiring the knowledge of the solution of the wave equation of the whole system but by generating detection events one-by-one according to an unknown distribution. We illustrate its applicability to various single photon and single neutron interferometry experiments and to two Bell test experiments, a single-photon Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment employing post-selection for photon pair identification and a single-neutron Bell test interferometry experiment with nearly $100\%$ detection efficiency.

Lectures notes of the Advanced School on Quantum Foundations and Open Quantum Systems, João Pessoa, Brazil, July 2012, edited by T. M. Nieuwenhuizen et al, World Scientific, to appear

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