Measuring incompatible observables of a single photon
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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2015
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1508.03220
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1508.03220
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv150803220P
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 3 figures