Abstract
The superposition principle is at the heart of quantum mechanics and plays the central role in interference phenomena in quantum mechanics. Quantum interference differs from classical interference because of particle nature of light. In a quantum mechanical picture, interference occurs because there are indistinguishable ways of an event to occur. Whenever which-path information is given to the system, interference disappears.
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