A prominent way through which wave-particle duality has been ascribed to photons is by illustrating their “wave-like” behaviour in the Mach-Zehnder interferometer and “particle-like” behaviour in the anti-correlation experiment. This duality has been formulated in two ways. Some have based the claim on the complementarity principle. This formulation, however, has already been shown to be problematic. Others have made a much simpler duality claim by considering that single-photons are analogous to waves and particles in the above experiments. I criticise this formulation by arguing that the analogies cannot be distinctly established. Thus, this duality claim is found to be unsubstantiated.

将波粒二象性归因于光子的一个突出方式是说明它们在 Mach-Zehnder 干涉仪中的“类波”行为和反相关实验中的“类粒子”行为。这种二元性以两种方式表述。有些人根据互补性原则提出索赔。然而，这种表述已经被证明是有问题的。其他人通过考虑单光子类似于上述实验中的波和粒子，提出了更简单的二元性主张。我通过论证无法明确地建立类比来批评这种表述。因此，这种二元性声明被认为是没有根据的。