Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment was conceived to illustrate the paradoxical nature of wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. In the experiment, quantum light can exhibit either wavelike interference patterns or particlelike anticorrelations, depending upon the (possibly delayed) choice of the experimenter. A variant known as the quantum eraser uses entangled light to recover the lost interference in a seemingly nonlocal and retrocausal manner. Although it is believed that this behavior is incompatible with classical physics, here we show that, using postselection, the observed quantum phenomena can be reproduced by adopting a simple deterministic detector model and supposing the existence of a random zero-point electromagnetic field.

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延迟选择量子橡皮擦的经典模型

惠勒的延迟选择实验旨在说明量子力学中波粒二象性的悖论性质。在实验中，量子光可以表现出波状干涉图案或粒子状反相关，这取决于实验者的（可能延迟的）选择。一种称为量子擦除器的变体使用纠缠光以看似非局部和逆因果的方式恢复丢失的干扰。尽管人们认为这种行为与经典物理学不相容，但我们在这里表明，使用后选择，可以通过采用简单的确定性探测器模型并假设随机零点电磁场的存在来重现观察到的量子现象。