The first thing to notice is that two complementary interference patterns, called ”fringes” and ”antifringes,” are being selected. Their sum is the no-interference pattern obtained before inserting the polarizer. The polarizer simply selects one of the interference patterns out of the mush of their merged non-interference pattern. Thus instead of ”erasing which-slit information,” it selects one of two interference patterns out of the both-patterns mush.Delayed quantum erasure:
If the upper arm is extended so the Dp detector is triggered last (”delayed erasure”), the same results are obtained. The entangled state is then collapsed at Ds. A coincidence counter (not pictured) is used to correlate the hits at Ds with the hits at Dp for each fixed polarizer setting, and the same interference pattern is obtained.
The interesting point is that the Dp detections could be years after the Ds hits in this delayed erasure setup. If the Dp polarizer is set at |+> , then out of the mush of hits at Ds obtained years before, the coincidence counter will pick out the ones from |+>s1 − i|+>s2 which will show interference.
Again, the years-later Dp detections do not retrocause anything at Ds, e.g., do not ”erase whichway information” years after the Ds hits are recorded (in spite of the ”delayed erasure” talk). They only pick (via the coincidence counter) one or the other interference pattern out of the years-earlier mush of hits at Ds.
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