Complementarity and the nature of uncertainty relations in Einstein-Bohr recoiling slit experiment
Abstract
A model of the Einstein-Bohr double-slit experiment is formulated in a fully quantum theoretical setting. In this model, the state and dynamics of a movable wall that has the double slits in it, as well as the state of a particle incoming to the double slits, are described by quantum mechanics. Using this model, we analyzed complementarity between exhibiting the interference pattern and distinguishing the particle path. Comparing the Kennard-Robertson type and the Ozawa-type uncertainty relations, we conclude that the uncertainty relation involved in the double-slit experiment is not the Ozawa-type uncertainty relation but the Kennard-type uncertainty relation of the position and the momentum of the double-slit wall. A possible experiment to test the complementarity relation is suggested. It is also argued that various phenomena which occur at the interface of a quantum system and a classical system, including distinguishability, interference, decoherence, quantum eraser, and weak value, can be understood as aspects of entanglement.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0703118,
title = {Complementarity and the nature of uncertainty relations in Einstein-Bohr recoiling slit experiment},
author = {Shogo Tanimura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0703118},
year = {2015}
}
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13 pages, 2 figures. The title is changed. Some references are added