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This experimental procedure is then reproduced with a true single-atom source 16, and compared to the large-number result. The result of this is shown in Fig.3, where each experimental point is now the average of several thousand experimental cycles. It can be seen that the experimental points closely resemble that of Fig.3 (inset), where fits to the experimental data give similar results to the large-number case. The main additional source of error for this data compared to the large-number version is shot noise due to limited counts. Also, the single-atom data are more susceptible to long-term drifts in the experiment, as data acquisition takes several weeks, as opposed to several hours for the large-number result. Cronin, A., Schmiedmayer, J. & Pritchard, D. Optics and interferometry with atoms and molecules. Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1051–1129 (2009). Martin, P. J., Oldaker, B. G., Miklich, A. H. & Pritchard, D. E. Bragg scattering of atoms from a standing light wave. Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 515–518 (1988). It is interesting to contrast the photon demonstration of Wheeler’s experiment 2 with the atomic one performed here. In the photon case the timing of the experiment is such that the small temporal width of the single-photon source (45 ns), combined with a large interferometer (48 m), allow the choice event to be space-like separated from the event where the photon reaches the first beamsplitter. In our experiment, the first beamsplitter is a light pulse which spatially overlaps the single-atom source, and thus the relevant temporal width for this operation is simply the duration of the π/2 pulse (20 μs). Thus space-like separation in our experiment is unfeasible; however, the slow velocity of the atom does allow a delayed choice in time, as implementedhere.

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