Measuring incompatible observables of a single photon
Quantum Physics
2016-10-26 v1
Abstract
One of the most intriguing aspects of Quantum Mechanics is the impossibility of measuring at the same time observables corresponding to non-commuting operators. This impossibility can be partially relaxed when considering joint or sequential weak values evaluation. Indeed, weak measurements have been a real breakthrough in the quantum measurement framework that is of the utmost interest from both a fundamental and an applicative point of view. Here we show how we realized, for the first time, a sequential weak value evaluation of two incompatible observables on a single photon.
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@article{arxiv.1508.03220,
title = {Measuring incompatible observables of a single photon},
author = {F. Piacentini and M. P. Levi and A. Avella and E. Cohen and R. Lussana and F. Villa and A. Tosi and F. Zappa and M. Gramegna and G. Brida and I. P. Degiovanni and M. Genovese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.03220},
year = {2016}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures