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Waiting for the Quantum Bus

Quantum Physics 2015-11-19 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Forty-five years after the discovery of the peculiar quantum effect known as `probability backflow', and twenty years after the greatest possible size of the effect was characterized, an experiment has been proposed recently to observe the effect in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Here the history is described in non-technical terms.

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@article{arxiv.1406.5674,
  title  = {Waiting for the Quantum Bus},
  author = {A. J. Bracken and G. F. Melloy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5674},
  year   = {2015}
}

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24 pages, 16 figures. PDFLatex file, pdf figure files

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