Extending Heisenberg's measurement--disturbance relation to the twin-slit case
Abstract
Heisenberg's position-measurement--momentum-disturbance relation is derivable from the uncertainty relation only for the case when the particle is initially in a momentum eigenstate. Here I derive a new measurement--disturbance relation which applies when the particle is prepared in a twin-slit superposition and the measurement can determine at which slit the particle is present. The relation is , where is the slit separation and is the Monge distance between the initial and final momentum distributions.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0210065,
title = {Extending Heisenberg's measurement--disturbance relation to the twin-slit case},
author = {H. M. Wiseman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0210065},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, no figures. Begins by discussing Heisenberg's measurement-disturbance relation. Quotes from Heisenberg's works show that [contrary to the impression gained from the recent critique by M. Ozawa (quant-ph/0210044)] Heisenberg (at least in 1930) was careful in restricting the situation for which his measurement-disturbance relation could be derived from the uncertainty relation