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Davephaelon
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- Energy loss between source and detector in single photon double slit experiment?
My question is does the photon that is absorbed by an atom on the detection screen have exactly the same energy as the photon that left the 'gun' source? Hence, does the wave packet representing a photon lose some of its energy when it impinges on the double slit barrier, so that when the diffracted photon is absorbed by an atom on the detection screen it is lower in energy than the one that emerged from the gun?