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Journal Club - Weak measurements
Speaker: Ernesto Galvão (IF-UFF)
Topic: Weak measurements and implementations
Abstract: I'll briefly review weak measurements, and then discuss a recent experimental measurement of the average trajectories of photons in a double-slit experiment.
References:
On weak measurements:
A time-symmetric formulation of quantum mechanics - Aharonov, Popescu,
Tollaksen, Physics Today, November 2010, p. 27.
The Two-State Vector Formalism: an Updated Review - Yakir Aharonov and
Lev Vaidman, arXiv:quant-ph/0105101v2
The photonic experiment:
Observing the average trajectories of single photons in a two-slit
interferometer - Kocsi et al (Steinberg group, Toronto), Science 332,
1170 (3 June 2011).
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