Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-22 v1
Abstract
It is shown that from the expectation values of obervables, which can be measured for a single system using protective measurements, the linear structure, inner product, and observables in the Hilbert space can be reconstructed. A universal method of measuring the wave function of a single particle using its gravitational field is given. Protective measurement is generalized to the measurement of a degenerate state and to many particle systems. The question of whether the wave function is real is examined, and an argument of Einstein in favor of the ensemble interpretation of quantum theory is refuted.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9312163,
title = {Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality},
author = {J. Anandan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9312163},
year = {2009}
}
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(e-mail n530042@univscvm.bitnet) 30 pages, to be published in Foundations of Physics Letters