Weak measurement and its experimental realisation

2014/04/14 by R. Flack, B. J. Hiley
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/504/1/012016

16 pages, 3 figures

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Abstract

The relationship between the real part of the weak value of the momentum operator at a post selected position is discussed and the meaning of the experimentally determined stream-lines in the Toronto experiment of Kocsis et al is re-examined. We argue against interpreting the energy flow lines as photon trajectories. The possibility of performing an analogous experiment using atoms is proposed in order that a direct comparison can be made with the trajectories calculated by Philippidis, Dewdney and Hiley using the Bohm approach.

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