AUTHOR=De Raedt Hans , Michielsen Kristel TITLE=Discrete-event simulation of uncertainty in single-neutron experiments JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics VOLUME=2 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2014.00014 DOI=10.3389/fphy.2014.00014 ISSN=2296-424X ABSTRACT=

A discrete-event simulation approach which provides a cause-and-effect description of many experiments with photons and neutrons exhibiting interference and entanglement is applied to a recent single-neutron experiment that tests (generalizations of) Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. The event-based simulation algorithm reproduces the results of the quantum theoretical description of the experiment but does not require the knowledge of the solution of a wave equation nor does it rely on concepts of quantum theory. In particular, the data satisfies uncertainty relations derived in the context of quantum theory.