Complementarity and the pathological statistics of the quantum impossible
Quantum Physics
2017-11-01 v1
Abstract
Standard quantum physics prevents the existence of a joint statistics for complementary observables. Nevertheless, a joint distribution for complementary observables can be derived from their imperfect simultaneous measurement followed by a suitable data inversion. Quantumness is reflected then in the pathologies of the inferred distribution. We apply this program to the paradigmatic example of complementarity: the wave-particle duality in a Young interferometer.
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@article{arxiv.1710.11338,
title = {Complementarity and the pathological statistics of the quantum impossible},
author = {Irene Bartolomé and Alfredo Luis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.11338},
year = {2017}
}
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