Photon Polarization Measurements without the Quantum Zeno Effect
Quantum Physics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
We consider a photon beam incident on a stack of polarizers as an example of a von Neumann projective measurement, theoretically leading to the quantum Zeno effect. The Maxwell theory (which is equivalent to the single photon Schr\"odinger equation) describes measured polarization phenomena, but without recourse to the notion of a projective measurement.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9902080,
title = {Photon Polarization Measurements without the Quantum Zeno Effect},
author = {V. Kidambi and A. Widom and C. Lerner and Y. N. Srivastava},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9902080},
year = {2009}
}
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RevTeX format, 8 pages, 3 figures