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View SchemaRealistic experiments for measuring the wave function of a single particle
| Authors | S. Nussinov |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9611024 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9611024 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01114-3 |
| Journal | Found.Phys. 28 (1998) 865-880 |
Abstract
We suggest scattering experiments which implement the concept of ``protective measurements'' allowing the measurement of the complete wave function even when only one quantum system (rather than an ensemble) is available. Such scattering experiments require massive, slow, projectiles with kinetic energies lower than the first excitation of the system in question. The results of such experiments can have a (probabilistic) distribution (as is the case when the Born approximation for the scattering is valid) or be deterministic (in a semi-classical limit).
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