Replay to "Comment on 'Quantum phase for an arbitrary system with finite-dimensional Hilbert space'

2012/11/15 by D. Aesenovic, Nikola Burić, N. Buric +8
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1211.3697

This is our replay to the comment by M. Hall and D. Pegg (arXiv:1206.4385; Phys. Rev. A 86 (2012) 056101) on our paper Phys.Rev.A, 85 044103 (2012)

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Abstract

We point out the crucial difference between the relative and absolute phase observables treated in our contribution \cite1 and in the Comment by Hall and Pegg \citeHP respectively. The main contribution of our work is to show that the quantum expectation of the relative phase is highly discontinuous function of the frequency and to point out interesting dependence of the phase on the number-theoretic nature of the frequencies.

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