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Event-based simulation of single-photon beam splitters and Mach-Zehnder interferometers

H. De Raedt, K. De Raedt, K. Michielsen

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0501141

Abstract

We demonstrate that networks of locally connected processing units with a primitive learning capability exhibit behavior that is usually only attributed to quantum systems. We describe networks that simulate single-photon beam-splitter and Mach-Zehnder interferometer experiments on a causal, event-by-event basis and demonstrate that the simulation results are in excellent agreement with quantum theory.

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