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View SchemaJoint measurements of spin, operational locality and uncertainty
| Authors | Erika Andersson, Stephen M. Barnett, Alain Aspect |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0509152 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0509152 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.042104 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 72, 042104 (2005) |
Abstract
Joint, or simultaneous, measurements of non-commuting observables are possible within quantum mechanics, if one accepts an increase in the variances of the jointly measured observables. In this paper, we discuss joint measurements of a spin 1/2 particle along any two directions. Starting from an operational locality principle, it is shown how to obtain a bound on how sharp the joint measurement can be. We give a direct interpretation of this bound in terms of an uncertainty relation.
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