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Quaternionic quantum interferometry

Asher Peres

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9605024

Abstract

If scattering amplitudes are ordinary complex numbers (not quaternions) there is a universal algebraic relationship between the six coherent cross sections of any three scatterers (taken singly and pairwise). A violation of this relationship would indicate either that scattering amplitudes are quaternions, or that the superposition principle fails. Some possible experimental tests involve neutron interferometry, KS-meson regeneration, and low energy proton-proton scattering.

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