Bouncing drops, memory
Wave-particle duality: tribute to the memory of Yves Couder
Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 348 (2020) no. 6-7, pp. 537-544.

Part of the special issue: Tribute to an exemplary man: Yves Couder

The story of wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics has been told a thousand times. This modest contribution is to get back to a few points, including memories of a discussion we had on a possible experimental evidence of quantum effects at macroscopic scale, but in a way totally unrelated to the experiments he and his group made quite later to exhibit a model of wave-particle duality. The more general question of interpreting/understanding quantum mechanics will be also scrutinized once more.

Published online:
DOI: 10.5802/crmeca.36
Keywords: Yves Couder, Quantum mechanics, Fluid mechanics, Capillarity
Yves Pomeau 1

1 Ladhyx, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Copyrights: The authors retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights
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Yves Pomeau. Wave-particle duality: tribute to the memory of Yves Couder. Comptes Rendus. Mécanique, Volume 348 (2020) no. 6-7, pp. 537-544. doi : 10.5802/crmeca.36. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mecanique/articles/10.5802/crmeca.36/

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