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Instantaneous measurement of non-local variables

2001/11/30 by Lev Vaidman
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.90.010402

4 pages, revised version, to be published in PRL

arxiv created 2002/11/19 · arxiv updated 2013/05/29

Abstract

It is shown, under the assumption of possibility to perform an arbitrary local operation, that all nonlocal variables related to two or more separate sites can be measured instantaneously, except for a finite time required for bringing to one location the classical records from these sites which yield the result of the measurement. It is a verification measurement: it yields reliably the eigenvalues of the nonlocal variables, but it does not prepare the eigenstates of the system.

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