Directly Observing Momentum Transfer in Twin-Slit "Which-Way" Experiments
Quantum Physics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Is the destruction of interference by a which-way measurement due to a random momentum transfer , with the slit separation? The weak-valued probability distribution , which is {\em directly observable}, provides a subtle answer. cannot have support on the interval . Nevertheless, its moments can be identically zero.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0303139,
title = {Directly Observing Momentum Transfer in Twin-Slit "Which-Way" Experiments},
author = {H. M. Wiseman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0303139},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure. Almost the version almost accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. A