Event by Event Simulation of Quantum Phenomena
Prof. Dr. Hans de Raedt (Universität Groningen)

Recent advances in nanotechnology are paving the way to attain control over individual microscopic objects. The ability to prepare, manipulate, couple and measure single microscopic systems facilitate the study of single quantum systems at the level of individual events. Such experiments address the most fundamental aspects of quantum theory. Although quantum theory is very successful in describing the frequencies for observing events it does not, for example, explain why individual events, such as the arrival of a single electron at a particular position on the detection screen, form interference patterns. In this talk, I present an event-based simulation method that rigorously satisfies Einstein's criteria of realism and local causality and builds up the final outcome that agrees with quantum theory event-by-event, as observed in real experiments. As an illustration, we show that our event-by-event simulation method reproduces exactly the results of quantum theory for single-photon double-slit experiments and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments.