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View SchemaInteraction-free measurement and forward scattering
| Authors | Tamás Geszti |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9804058 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9804058 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.4206 |
Abstract
Interaction-free measurement is shown to arise from the forward-scattered wave accompanying absorption: a "quantum silhouette" of the absorber. Accordingly, the process is not free of interaction. For a perfect absorber the forward-scattered wave is locked both in amplitude and in phase. For an imperfect one it has a nontrivial phase of dynamical origin (``colored silhouette"), measurable by interferometry. Other examples of quantum silhouettes, all controlled by unitarity, are briefly discussed.
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