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Universality of local weak interactions and its application for interferometric alignment

Quantum Physics 2019-04-16 v3

Abstract

The modification of the effect of interactions of a particle as a function of its pre- and postselected states is analyzed theoretically and experimentally. The universality property of this modification in the case of local interactions of a spatially pre- and postselected particle has been found. It allowed to define an operational approach for characterization of the presence of a quantum particle in a particular place: the way it modifies the effect of local interactions. The experiment demonstrating this universality property provides an efficient interferometric alignment method, in which the beam on a single detector throughout one phase scan yields all misalignment parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1804.05400,
  title  = {Universality of local weak interactions and its application for interferometric alignment},
  author = {Jan Dziewior and Lukas Knips and Demitry Farfurnik and Katharina Senkalla and Nimrod Benshalom and Jonathan Efroni and Jasmin Meinecke and Shimshon Bar-Ad and Harald Weinfurter and Lev Vaidman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.05400},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures

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