Directly Observing Momentum Transfer in Twin-Slit "Which-Way" Experiments

Details Directly Observing Momentum Transfer in Twin-Slit "Which-Way" Experiments Directly Observing Momentum Transfer in Twin-Slit "Which-Way" Experiments

2003-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303139v1

Physics Letters A 311, 285-291 (2003).

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 1 figure. Almost the version almost accepted for publication in Phys. Lett. A

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0375-9601(03)00504-8

Is the destruction of interference by a which-way measurement due to a random momentum transfer $\wp\agt\hbar/s$, with $s$ the slit separation? The weak-valued probability distribution $P_{\rm wv}(\wp)$, which is {\em directly observable}, provides a subtle answer. $P_{\rm wv}(\wp)$ cannot have support on the interval $[-\hbar/s,\hbar/s]$. Nevertheless, its moments can be identically zero.

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