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Re:Quantum Game with Photons by akrasuski1 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:41PM (#15908776)
Can anyone explain why these two arrangements are not equivalent? They seem to both cause same phase shift and reflections, but the first one causes the photon to pass to the right, and the second - to split.

https://imgur.com/a/OkEQY

https://imgur.com/a/Byo8E

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Re:Quantum Game with Photons by stared on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:57PM (#15908901)
Reflection changes "left-right". So effectively, a sugar solution (rotating polarization) before mirror rotates it in the opposite direction (vs a sugar solution after a mirror).

Actually it is a tricky thing I realised while testing this game. I thought it was an error in code. But nope - it was how does physics work. :)

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