On the Aharonov-Anandan Experiment

Details On the Aharonov-Anandan Experiment On the Aharonov-Anandan Experiment

1993-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9304126v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

9 pages, LaTeX, preprint pitt-gr-3-93

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An experiment that would measure non--commuting quantum mechanical observables without collapsing the wave function has been recently proposed by Y Aharonov and J Anandan. These authors argue that this "protected measurement" may give indication on "the reality of the wave function". We argue that, depending of the precise version of the experiment considered, either the author's prediction is incorrect and the wave function does collapse, or the measurement is not a measurement on a quantum system. In either case, the experiment does not provide a way for measuring non--commuting observables without collapse, and it does not bear on the issue of the "reality of the wave function".

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