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| name = Yoshiyuki | | name = Yoshiyuki Ohtake | ||
| alt = Yoshiyuki | | alt = Yoshiyuki Ohtake | ||
| fields = experimental quantum optics | |||
| residence = Hamakita, Japan | | residence = Hamakita, Japan | ||
| nationality = Japanese | |||
| known_for = The two-prism test of the complementarity principle (with [[Yutaka Mizobuchi]]) | |||
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'''Yoshiyuki Ohtake''' is a Japanese experimental physicist, known with [[Yutaka Mizobuchi]] for the 1992 two-prism test of Bohr's complementarity principle. (His surname is sometimes rendered "Ohtaké" with an accent in typeset citations, and was misspelled "Othake" on this wiki; "Ohtake" is the standard form.) | |||
Using single-photon states and two glass prisms across a sub-wavelength gap, Ohtake and Mizobuchi sought — and reported — both wave-like tunnelling and particle-like single detection in the same apparatus, an apparent challenge to the complementarity principle. The experiment realised the Ghose–Home–Agarwal proposal and drew a decade of debate; the original claim was subsequently judged not to have been established, a story told in full on the paper's page, ''[[A Test of the Complementarity Principle in Single-Photon States of Light]]''. | |||
[[Category:Scientist| | As with his co-author, little is publicly recorded about Ohtake beyond this experiment. Their shared location of '''Hamakita''', near Hamamatsu in Shizuoka, is where Hamamatsu Photonics — the leading maker of single-photon detectors — has its Central Research Laboratory; an affiliation there is a plausible inference but not a documented one. | ||
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==Papers on this wiki== | |||
* 1994 – ''[[A Test of the Complementarity Principle in Single-Photon States of Light]]'', with [[Yutaka Mizobuchi]]. | |||
==See also== | |||
* [[Yutaka Mizobuchi]] | |||
* [[A Test of the Complementarity Principle in Single-Photon States of Light]] | |||
* [[Wave-Particle Duality]] | |||
* [[Quantum Mechanics]] | |||
[[Category:Scientist|Ohtake Yoshiyuki]] | |||
[[Category:Quantum Theory|Ohtake Yoshiyuki]] | |||
[[Category:Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists]] | |||
Latest revision as of 14:48, 23 July 2026
Yoshiyuki Ohtake | |
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| Residence | Hamakita, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Known for | The two-prism test of the complementarity principle (with Yutaka Mizobuchi) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | experimental quantum optics |
Yoshiyuki Ohtake is a Japanese experimental physicist, known with Yutaka Mizobuchi for the 1992 two-prism test of Bohr's complementarity principle. (His surname is sometimes rendered "Ohtaké" with an accent in typeset citations, and was misspelled "Othake" on this wiki; "Ohtake" is the standard form.)
Using single-photon states and two glass prisms across a sub-wavelength gap, Ohtake and Mizobuchi sought — and reported — both wave-like tunnelling and particle-like single detection in the same apparatus, an apparent challenge to the complementarity principle. The experiment realised the Ghose–Home–Agarwal proposal and drew a decade of debate; the original claim was subsequently judged not to have been established, a story told in full on the paper's page, A Test of the Complementarity Principle in Single-Photon States of Light.
As with his co-author, little is publicly recorded about Ohtake beyond this experiment. Their shared location of Hamakita, near Hamamatsu in Shizuoka, is where Hamamatsu Photonics — the leading maker of single-photon detectors — has its Central Research Laboratory; an affiliation there is a plausible inference but not a documented one.
Papers on this wiki
- 1994 – A Test of the Complementarity Principle in Single-Photon States of Light, with Yutaka Mizobuchi.