Suppose we send 2 entangled photons through the 2 slit, does measuring the position of one of the photons affect the other particle's wave function or does the other particle still behave as a wave ?
Answer
Here are single photons at a time arriving at the slits:
Single-photon camera recording of photons from a double slit illuminated by very weak laser light. Left to right: single frame, superposition of 200, 1’000, ... frames
The "measurement" of each photon is a dot.
Suppose we send 2 entangled photons through the 2 slit, does measuring the position of one of the photons affect the other particle's wave function or does the other particle still behave as a wave ?
As your two entangled photons move with velocity c, they will have to be parallel to each other and close in space, in order to both reach the double slits and go through, and both will materialize as a point on the screen. If there were a polarimeter at the location of the dot , the spin correlation could be registered, but the probability waves are reduced to points after the slits, and appears in the accumulation of points in the interference.
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